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Incidence of multitasking search by AlltheWeb.com and Excite Web search engine users were filtered from transaction logs. Findings include: (1) multitasking Web searches are a noticeable user behavior, one tenth of Excite users and one third of AlltheWeb.com users conducted multitasking searches, (2) multitasking search sessions are longer than regular search sessions in terms of queries per session and duration, (3) both Excite and AlltheWeb.com users search for about three topics per multitasking session and submit about 4\u20135 queries per topic, and (4) there is a broad variety of search topics in multitasking search sessions. 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