Michael Chau|Xiao Fang|Christopher C. Yang
Web searching in Chinese: A study of a search engine in Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong|University of Toledo|Chinese University of Hong Kong
abstract number nonenglish resources increasing rapidly web although many studies conducted query logs search engines primarily englishbased eg excite altavista studied informationseeking behavior web nonenglish languages article report analysis searchquery logs search engine focused chinese three months searchquery logs timway search engine based hong kong collected analyzed metrics sessions queries search topics character usage reported ngram analysis also applied perform characterbased analysis analysis suggests characteristics identified search log search topics mean number queries per sessions similar english search engines however characteristics use operators query formulation significantly different analysis also shows small number unique chinese characters used search queries believe findings study provided insights research nonenglish web searching