Persian multimedia search services' users propensities

Abstract

Nowadays, search engines are prominent tools, which are required by users, for finding information in web. Multimedia search engines are of special importance due to two different reasons; 1) attractiveness of multimedia contents and 2) growing rate of the creation and online dissemination of such contents. In this paper every effort is made to analyze and recognize the propensities of the users of Persian multimedia search services. For this purpose, behaviors of Iranian users of Parsijoo's image, voice and video search services has been studied by analyzing its usage log files. The analyses, which have been carried out by using users' queries for a time period of three months, can be categorized into two distinct types; holistic analyses and the ones based on using frequently used queries. The results of the analyses have shown that users are mostly after entertainments and amusement topics when they use multimedia search services.