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With the recent emergence of tools to support collaborative Web search, the associated sensemaking task has become even more complex, requiring sense to be made not only of the <em>products<\/em> of a search (i.e., results found) but of the <em>process<\/em>, as well (i.e., group division of labor and decision-making).<\/p>\n<p>We present the findings of a formative study illustrating the sensemaking challenges posed by collaborative search tools. Based on these findings, we created CoSense, a system that supports sensemaking for collaborative Web search tasks by providing several rich, interactive views of a group\u2019s search activities. We describe an evaluation of CoSense, reflecting on how its features supported different aspects of sensemaking, and how future collaborative search systems can benefit from these findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making sense of the information found during an investigational Web search task can be daunting. 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