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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Predicting when browsing context is relevant to search
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Context browsing with mobiles - when less is more
Except for a handful of "mobile" Web sites, the Web is designed for browsing with personal computers with large screens capable of fitting the content of most Web pages....
Yevgen Borodin, Jalal Mahmud, I. V. Ramakrishnan
KDD
2010
ACM
190views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
User browsing models: relevance versus examination
There has been considerable work on user browsing models for search engine results, both organic and sponsored. The click-through rate (CTR) of a result is the product of the prob...
Ramakrishnan Srikant, Sugato Basu, Ni Wang, Daryl ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White