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This is an overview of the NTCIR-9 One Click Access (1CLICK)“pilot” task. In contrast to traditional Web search which requires the user to scan a ranked list of URLs, visit individual URLs and gather pieces of information he needs, 1CLICK aims to satisfy the user with a single textual output, immediately after the user clicks on the SEARCH button. Systems are expected to present important pieces of information first and to minimise the amount of text the user has to read. As our first trial, we designed a Japanese 1CLICK task with a nugget-based test collection. Three research teams participated in the task, using diverse approaches (information extraction, passage retrieval and summarisation). Our results suggest that the 1CLICK evaluation framework is a useful complement to traditional 10-blue-link evaluation. We therefore hope to expand the language scope in the next round, at NTCIR-10.