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  Information foraging theory: adaptive interaction with information
Pirolli P., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2007. 226 pp.  Type: Book (9780195173321), Reviews: (2 of 2)

Nowadays, many of us spend a fair amount of time performing Web searches. We may be looking for products, better pricing, answers to medical questions--really, almost any sort of information. We have, of course, search engines...
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Mar 11 2009  
  Information foraging theory: adaptive interaction with information
Pirolli P., Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY, 2007. 226 pp.  Type: Book (9780195173321), Reviews: (1 of 2)

A number of metaphors have been invoked to explain how to bring people together with the information they need. Information retrieval presumes that the information has been stored in an orderly structure, in which it can be looked up. ...
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Feb 19 2009  

   
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