Amanda Spink has published a few papers on this e.g.
Bernard J. Jansen and Amanda Spink "An analysis of Web searching
by European AlltheWeb.com users" Information Processing &
Management, Volume 41, Issue 2, March 2005, Pages 361-381
(shows that of 957,303 Alltheweb searches they examined in 2002, 33%
used one term and 33% used 2. The authors examined about half that
number of search queries in 2001 and the figures were 25% (1 term) and
36% (2 terms)
Sheila
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Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street
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