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WSDM
2012
ACM
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Domain bias in web search
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
WEBI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Determining Bias to Search Engines from Robots.txt
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee...
AIRWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Extracting Link Spam using Biased Random Walks from Spam Seed Sets
Link spam deliberately manipulates hyperlinks between web pages in order to unduly boost the search engine ranking of one or more target pages. Link based ranking algorithms such ...
Baoning Wu, Kumar Chellapilla
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond position bias: examining result attractiveness as a source of presentation bias in clickthrough data
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
Yisong Yue, Rajan Patel, Hein Roehrig