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WEBI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
The number of documents that are indexed by a search engine is referred to as the size of the search engine. The information about the size of each underlying search engine is ess...
APWEB
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...
CIKM
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is di cult for a person to determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution is to...
DGO
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
In environments containing many text search engines a federated search system provides people with a single point of access. When search engines are managed by independent organiz...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...