Abstract In the Web search process people often think that the hardest work is done by the search engines or by the directories which are entrusted with finding the Web pages. Whi...
Queries on major Web search engines produce complex result pages, primarily composed of two types of information: organic results, that is, short descriptions and links to relevan...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Andrei Z. Broder...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
It is expected that more and more people will search the web when they are on the move. Though conventional search engines can be directly visited from mobile devices with web bro...
The rapid development of web image search engines has enabled users to search hundred million of images available on the Web. However, due to the unsatisfactory performance of cur...