%A Bădărînză, Ioan %D 2017 %T Analyzing the Usefulness of the User's Browser History for Generating Query Suggestions %K %X A very useful feature of search engines that helps users while they browse the internet, where, they very often, try to satisfy an information need, is query suggestion . This mechanism shows the user a list of possible queries from where he can choose and be able to perform a search easier and faster. In this paper we tried to assess the usefulness of a user's recent web browsing history for generating new query suggestions. We performed a one month experiment in which we collected browsing history logs of several users and searched query terms submitted by those users to Google (using a Chrome plugin) and found that approximately 32% of the queries submitted can be predicted from the user's browsing history. %U https://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/article/view/14 %J Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica %0 Journal Article %R 10.24193/subbi.2017.2.05 %P 57-68%V 62 %N 2 %@ 2065-9601 %8 2017-12-15