The present study seeks to examine the factors affecting information search of heads of households in purchasing an outbound package tour. A sample of 60 academics and non-academics in the field of tourism was chosen. Sampling methods were judgmental and snowball sampling. In order to gather data, we used a semi-structured interview.  Thematic analysis was applied for data analysis, and the col...

in this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. it aims to improvement of search results which leads to the higher satisfaction of users. in other words, we are trying to present a personalized search engine for each user, based on his/her activity and search history. we base our hypothesis that the search history of each user in a specific time frame...

background: knowing the rate of overlapping in results obtained from information retrieval tools is important to prevent waste of time. medical and health-related information has an outstanding place among the variety of information available on the internet. hence, this research aimed to study the rate of overlap among medical search results derived from mesh (medical subject headings) in gene...

Search as a Service (SaaS) is a cloud service model whose main focus is on enterprise search or site-specific web search. Modern companies require fast and accurate information from their internal databases, internal document stores, or through the content of a website. Having a reliable searching mechanism is essential for both internal company staff and for external customers. In this paper t...

Website Information Island leads to information partition between sites and customers, and holds back the improvement of website popularity. To solve this problem, the paper proposes website keywords seeding system based on internal and external SEO, and provides data structure, operation process and key algorithm inside model; According to external customers' high-frequency search terms and in...

internal turn-turn faults (ttf) are the most common failures in power transformers, which could seriously reduce their life expectancy. although common protection schemes such as current-baseddifferential protection are able to detect some of the internal faults, some other minor ones (such as ttfs andshort circuit near the neutral point) cannot be detected by such schemes. likewise, these rela...

The advent of the circular economy has repurposed traditional consumption habits. It is expanding opportunities for consumers to preserve ecosystem throughout whole product lifecycle. Drawing from extant rational and moral theories in behavior change, this research extends understanding consumer involvement by investigating whether being exposed “green” clues can trigger additional information ...

Internet search engines boast material features (e.g., Google’s knowledge panels, Featured Snippets) that increase the speed with which users find answers to queries—while reducing their effort—to create a seamless media experience. Yet, ability instantaneously retrieve through digital may come at metacognitive cost. This experiment examines effect of fluency on internal (in “brain”) confidence...