Information Search Habits of First Year College Students

2. Related Work

There are many previous studies that analyse the researching processes on the Internet by the users, both at university as non-university. These projects try to extract the keys that remark the differences between the time spent on the research, used filters and number of queries performed (Spink & Jansen, 2004; Efthimiadis, 2009; Hess, 1999; Hwang et al., 2007). Some of the conclusions of these studies are discussed below. The big amount of information abatable on the Internet requires of a certain quantity of ability to obtain the expected results. One of the key aspects to success on this task is having the mental and conceptual schemas necessaries to orient the research with the proper key words (Brandt, 1997; Uden et al., 2001). These characteristics increase basically based on the experience, and with it, the results are simplified and increases the efficiency in the process (Perrochon, 1997; Munro & Kwon, 1997; Newsweek, 2010; Song & Salvendy, 2003).