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Abstract

This study compared the search features and retrieval performance of Yahooligans!, Ask Jeeves for Kids, and Super Snooper on identical searches. This extended the earlier research conducted by Bilal (1999), which examined the cognitive, affective, and physical behaviors of twenty-two 7th grade science students' use of Yahooligans! search engine. The three types of searches the students formulated in Yahooligans! on an imposed fact-driven query were here conducted in Ask Jeeves for Kids and Super Snooper. The retrieval performance criteria of the three engines included: (1) retrieval output, (2) relevance, (3) overlap in results, and (4) redundancy. A matrix of features (e.g., database coverage, search interface, search capabilities, retrieval interface, filtering, feedback, online help, FAQs, and advertisements) was developed to compare the engines. The performance of the natural language capability embedded in Ask Jeeves for Kids was evaluated by comparing the results retrieved directly from Yahooligans! to those Ask Jeeves for Kids returned from Yahooligans! on identical searches.The. results shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of each engine and appropriateness to specific types of queries. Yahooligans! was the most effective on keyword searching. Super Snooper returned the highest number of hits but with zero relevance on all types of searches. Ask Jeeves for Kids was successful only on one keyword search and failed both the natural language phrase and multiple keyword. Implications are made for improving the engines' design, retrieval performance, and search features, as well as for user instruction

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Abstract

Bilal, in this third part of her Yahooligans! study looks at children's performance with self-generated search tasks, as compared to previously assigned search tasks looking for differences in success, cognitive behavior, physical behavior, and task preference. Lotus ScreenCam was used to record interactions and post search interviews to record impressions. The subjects, the same 22 seventh grade children in the previous studies, generated topics of interest that were mediated with the researcher into more specific topics where necessary. Fifteen usable sessions form the basis of the study. Eleven children were successful in finding information, a rate of 73% compared to 69% in assigned research questions, and 50% in assigned fact-finding questions. Eighty-seven percent began using one or two keyword searches. Spelling was a problem. Successful children made fewer keyword searches and the number of search moves averaged 5.5 as compared to 2.4 on the research oriented task and 3.49 on the factual. Backtracking and looping were common. The self-generated task was preferred by 47% of the subjects.