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SPIRE
1999
Springer
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CoBWeb - A Crawler for the Brazilian Web
One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
117views Education» more  ERCIMDL 1999»
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Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library
Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search e...
Naomi Dushay, James C. French, Carl Lagoze
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
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The Small World Web
I show that the World Wide Web is a small world, in the sense that sites are highly clustered yet the path length between them is small. I also demonstrate the advantages of a sear...
Lada A. Adamic
DL
1999
Springer
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Constructing Web Views from Automated Navigation Sessions
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
Nadav Zin, Mark Levene
WISE
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Searching the Web Using a Map
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Joseph D. Yates, Xiaofang Zhou
CIKM
2001
Springer
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Discovering the Representative of a Search Engine
Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is di cult for a person to determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution is to...
King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Adrian Sa...
KDD
2009
ACM
248views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
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PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Locality in Search Engine Queries and Its Implications for Caching
—Caching is a popular technique for reducing both server load and user response time in distributed systems. In this paper, we consider the question of whether caching might be e...
Yinglian Xie, David R. O'Hallaron
ICDCSW
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Persistent Cache in Cooperative Search Engine
Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) is a distributed search engine, which can update indexes in very short time for the purpose of fresh information retrieval. In CSE, the retrieval p...
Nobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara, Yoshifumi Sakai, Hi...
UM
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Long-Term Search Engine Usage
Search engines are key components in the online world and the choice of search engine is an important determinant of the user experience. In this work we seek to model user behavio...
Ryen W. White, Ashish Kapoor, Susan T. Dumais