Interesting paper from some Googlers, digging into mobile search. One million queries were analyzed over the course of a month. The queries analyzed followed many of the same characteristics as queries done from a desktop or laptop, for example, the average number of words in a query were between 2 and 3 for both mobile and desktop search.
One interesting find was that 17% of the mobile queries were for URLs. Perhaps it was easier for people to search for a URL than finding the address bar and typing it in.
Overall though, a good paper to read and think about if you are doing anything related to mobile search. [ via ]
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