When the top frequency terms are classified as to subject, the top category is Sexual. As to the frequency of appearance, about one in every four terms in the list of 63 highest used terms can be classified as sexual in nature. But while sexual terms are high as a category, they still represent a very small proportion of all terms. Many other subjects are searched and the diversity of subjects searched is very high. Provisions for image searching by Web search engines is important for users.
Users seeking images input relatively few terms to specify their image information needs on the Web.
Users seeking images interact iteratively during the course of a single session, but input relatively few queries overall. Terms indicating sexual or adult content materials appear frequently in image queries. They represented a quarter of the most frequently occurring terms, but were a small percentage of the total terms. Multilingual retrieval techniques will be at the forefront of IR research for the foreseeable future. This ongoing study of Web searching has examined a number of large-scale Excite transaction logs.