Thesis data

[Ragav Ramakrishnan]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for taking time to read this email and helping me in my thesis. I have attached a simple Excel form which you need to fill every time you use a search box. The search box may be in Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Flipkart.

Please please fill it up whenever you use a search box and try to do it for a week and turn it back it by Wednesday night. Thanks a lot. This would be impossible without you guys.

Time: Time of the day when the search was made.

Day: The day of the week when the observation was recorded.

Search Engine: The Search engine where the search was made: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Flipkart.

Browser: The browser used.

Domain: What did u search for - Technology, mobiles, restaurant, direction etc.

Domain Familiarity: On a scale of 5 . 5 is you know the domain the very well and 1 if it is you have very little idea about it.

Urgency of the result: On a scale of 5 . 5 if it is very urgent, 1 if it is least urgent.

#Search Modified: Number of times the search was modified before the final result was obtained.

Other suggestions by engine: Suppose you go wrong on the spelling or something, GOOGLE for example suggests you something, did you get such a suggestion?

Suggestion taken?: did u click on the suggestion and did the final result come from that? 

Page Number: Which page number did the result you finally find the answer.

Link Number: On a particular page, which link did u choose . 1or 2 or 3. 

Time to load result: Time to load the search result if available.

Thanks and Regards,

Ragav Ramakrishnan,

Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA, USA.