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2001
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Methods for Measuring Search Engine Performance over Time
This study introduces methods for evaluating search engine performance over a time period. Several measures are defined, which as a whole, describe search engine functionality ove...
Judit Bar-Ilan
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library
Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search e...
Naomi Dushay, James C. French, Carl Lagoze
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Semantic similarity between search engine queries using temporal correlation
We investigate the idea of finding semantically related search engine queries based on their temporal correlation; in other words, we infer that two queries are related if their p...
Steve Chien, Nicole Immorlica
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Improving Web search efficiency via a locality based static pruning method
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
Edleno Silva de Moura, Célia Francisca dos ...