"Domain Bias in Web Search"

http://j.mp/rzVgiZ  (Stanford [PDF])

   "This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call
    domain bias - a user's propensity to believe that a page is more
    relevant just because it comes from a particular domain. We
    provide evidence of the existence of domain bias in click activity
    as well as in human judgments via a comprehensive collection of
    experiments. We begin by studying the dierence between domains
    that a search engine surfaces and that users click. Surprisingly,
    we nd that despite changes in the overall distribution of surfaced
    domains, there has not been a comparable shift in the distribution
    of clicked domains. Users seem to have learned the landscape of
    the internet and their click behavior has thus become more
    predictable over time."

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--Lauren--
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