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Augmenting Information Seeking on the World Wide Web Using Collaborative Filtering Techniques Don Turnbull 1. Introduction The internet has opened a channel of access to a interwoven labyrinth of information over an almost ubiquitous platform - the World Wide Web (the Web). Graphical Web browsers have enabled all types of users to access and share information with one another. However, once the initial thrill of Web access is over, most users dont surf the web, they use it as an information source. This paper seeks to take Information Seeking research and apply it as a framework for understanding the World Wide Web environment and to identify opportunities for augmenting information seeking by applying Bibliometric analysis, filtering techniques, and collaborative technologies to Web usage data that can, in turn leverage a Web users Information Seeking behavior. 1.1 Overview This paper reviews several areas of study in order to form an extensive view of the issues involved in understanding and improving how a World Wide Web browser user (Web user) can discover new information on the World Wide Web. There are seven main sections to this paper: Section 1: Introduction This Introduction and Overview, intended to explain and layout the overall topics of this paper. Section 2: Applying Information Seeking to Electronic Environments This section reviews the important models and studies in Information Seeking and Bibliometrics to understand and analyze Information Systems use. Section 3: The Internet and the World Wide Web This section introduces the Internet and World Wide Web, some of their basic standards and functionalities. Also included are descriptions and reviews of the data sources and measurement methods currently available to understand Web usage activity. Section 4: Collaborative Filtering This section provides a general introduction to Collaborative Filtering and presents recent significant studies and systems for Information Filtering using both the Int