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Finding the flow in web site search

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Designing a search system and interface may best be served (and executed) by scrutinizing usability studies.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 9
        September 2002
        99 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/567498
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