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Clicks on search results and time allocated to Web pages as a function of search result rank, aggregated across the three experiments in study 1. Subjects spent less time on Web pages corresponding to lower-ranked search results (blue curve) and were less likely to click on lower-ranked results (red curve). This pattern is found routinely in studies of Internet search engine use (1–12).
