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WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
How to Improve Your Google Ranking: Myths and Reality
Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Adapting ranking functions to user preference
— Learning to rank has become a popular method for web search ranking. Traditionally, expert-judged examples are the major training resource for machine learned web ranking, whic...
Keke Chen, Ya Zhang, Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, ...
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Analysis of Factors Used in Search Engine Ranking
This paper investigates the influence of different page features on the ranking of search engine results. We use Google (via its API) as our testbed and analyze the result rankin...
Albert Bifet, Carlos Castillo, Paul-Alexandru Chir...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Pseudo test collections for learning web search ranking functions
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
NIPS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...