A review on an approach to infer user search goals for optimize result

Abstract

Nowadays, Internet is widely used by users to satisfy their various information needs. Whenever a user submits any query/topic/keyword to search engine, it provides a long list of results for same query. As a consequence of this, users have to spend a lot of time in searching information of his/her interest. Most of the time it has been seen that, search engine does not deliver most relevant information, and hence information need of user does not get satisfied. Hence to provide best results, an analysis of user search goal behind searching is essential. Inference and analysis of user search goals can help to get relevant and refined results from a search engine and to provide better user experience. In this paper, main focus is on survey of infer user search goal approaches in prior studies which would help researchers to retrieve efficient results and information.