Keyword Phrases

Is there a study about common folk using quotes?

[metakomm]

Is there any study that shows that users are getting smarter with advanced searches and using quotes around keywords?

[Receptional Andy]

I found this (slightly old) study with some interesting conclusions:

[ist.psu.edu...]

Why aren’t Web searchers using more advanced queries? Some researchers
have stated that Web searchers are lazy [Zapur and Zhang 2000] or that there
is a design flaw with Web search engines [Clark 2001].

[alexn]

Thank you for this nice stats!

Alexn