ANáLISIS DE CONSULTAS A UN BUSCADOR DE LA WEB CHILENA

web page search engines are essential tools on users？ orientation, which is reflected by the big amount of people who are using them every day. the logs, reflecting the web search engine uses, are a valuable source of information: they give us information about the users？ expectations, preferences and needs, which is everything that they expect to find on the web. the results from the logs usage analysis have an important commercial value, in particular, for e-commerce and internet publicity. the purpose of this study is to find relations between chilean web (.cl) users？ queries and the different classification areas for its web sites. also we expect to find relations between the search types made and the web sites visited, trying to get the need behind the query . the data used for this study was gotten from the chilean search engine todocl, between february and march 2004.