There is much interest in providing effective mobile search tools. Our focus is the value of in situ sharing of users’ mobile search activity. The QnotA prototype displays other...
David Arter, George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Richard ...
We consider the following problem: a user U wants to store his files in an encrypted form on a remote file server S. Later the user U wants to efficiently retrieve some of the en...
We present a logs-based comparison of search patterns across three platforms: computers, iPhones and conventional mobile phones. Our goal is to understand how mobile search users ...
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
In this paper, we present the concept of Passive Distributed Indexing, a general-purpose distributed search service for mobile file sharing applications, which is based on peer-to...