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WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
HICSS
2010
IEEE
166views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
13 years 12 months ago
Spatial Variation in Search Engine Results
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
David Noack
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
159views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
162views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient query processing in geographic web search engines
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...
Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Alexander Markowetz
COMPSAC
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A content-based search engine on medical images for telemedicine
Retrieving images by content and forming visual queries are important functionality of an image database system. Using textual descriptions to specify queries on image content is ...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Chi-Hung Lee, Vincent T. Y. ...