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Searchers and searchers: differences between the most and least consistent searches

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      SIGIR '95: Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
      July 1995
      392 pages
      ISBN:0897917146
      DOI:10.1145/215206

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