Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search

The document presents findings from a study analyzing 150 responses to a critical incident survey about peoples' most recent search experiences. It finds that 43% of users engaged in pre-search social interactions, such as gathering requirements or formulating representations. During search, 59% of searches were informational in nature. After search, 72% of users took action such as organizing and distributing search results, with 67% of all users sharing information with others and 87% sharing with proximate others.