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WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 6 days ago
No search result left behind: branching behavior with browser tabs
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...
Jeff Huang, Thomas Lin, Ryen W. White
WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 6 days ago
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 10 days ago
Friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your URLs. using social chatter to personalize web search
People often find useful content on the web via social media. However, it is difficult to manually aggregate the information and recommendations embedded in a torrent of social ...
Abhinay Nagpal, Sudheendra Hangal, Rifat Reza Joye...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Incorporating query difference for learning retrieval functions in world wide web search
We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...