Ranking microblogs, such as tweets, as search results for a query is challenging, among other things because of the sheer amount of microblogs that are being generated in real time...
Realtime web search refers to the retrieval of very fresh content which is in high demand. An effective portal web search engine must support a variety of search needs, including ...
Microblog services let users broadcast brief textual messages to people who "follow" their activity. Often these posts contain terms called hashtags, markers of a post...
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...
This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networkin...