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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
W4A
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Mobile phones may be the right devices for supporting developing world accessibility, but is the WWW the right service delivery
In this paper we detail the synergies we have observed between the features and limitations of mobile phones, and the usability and accessibility requirements of rural developing ...
Tapan S. Parikh
IPM
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink
CN
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Web dynamics and their ramifications for the development of Web search engines
The World Wide Web has become the largest hypertext system in existence, providing an extremely rich collection of information resources. Compared with conventional information so...
Yiping Ke, Lin Deng, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun Lee
ICWE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Squiggle: An Experience in Model-Driven Development of Real-World Semantic Search Engines
Abstract. Search engines are becoming such an easy way to find textual resources that we wish to use them also for multimedia content; however, syntactic techniques, even if promi...
Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza,...