The Web has become a ubiquitous tool for distributing knowledge and information and for conducting businesses. To exploit the huge potential of the Web as a global information rep...
An appreciation of the roles of genre and task is important in understanding how people browse the Web. Genre is characterized by content and form and is intimately linked to the ...
Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. Shepherd, Forbes J....
The Web is a hypertextual environment in permanent evolution. There are new technologies and Web publishing behaviors emerging everyday. This study presents trends on the evolutio...
We seek to gain improved insight into how Web search engines should cope with the evolving Web, in an attempt to provide users with the most up-to-date results possible. For this ...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Olsto...
The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...