WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2001
ACM
We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found...
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2003
ACM
This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling traffic levels on the world wide web (WWW) using a method of entropy maximization. This traffic is subject to the conservation con...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
A search engine evaluation model that considers over seventy performance and feature parameters is presented. The design of a web-based system that allows the user to tailor the m...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2005
ACM
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...