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(2005). Search Sessions. In: Spink, A., Jansen, B.J. (eds) Web Search: Public Searching of the Web. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2269-7_6

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