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The World Wide Web has
become the biggest digital library available. The number of unique indexable
web pages has exceeded 2 billion and is still growing at a substantial rate
[Lyman & Varian, 2000]. With such rapid growth of the Web size, it is
almost impossible for a user to search useful information or navigate
effectively through many of the Web documents. This increases the need for
improved analysis and automatically searching on the Web. There has been much
research on different ways of analyzing the content and structure of the Web.
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What is Information
Seeking?
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Information seeking is the
process engaged in by humans to change their state of knowledge. It is
a high level cognitive process that is part of learning or problem solving.
To seek information implies the need to change the state of one’s knowledge.
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Information retrieval is
concerned with getting information from databases.
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Searching is the behavioral
manifestation of information seeking.
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