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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Geographic Search Engine
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Handling Locations in Search Engine Queries
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva, Sérgi...
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Range-capable Distributed Hash Tables
In this paper, we present a novel indexing data structure called RDHT (Range capable Distributed Hash Table) derived from skip lists and specifically designed for storing and retr...
Alessandro Soro, Cristian Lai
GIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Detecting Geographical Serving Area of Web Resources
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...