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OTM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
A Characterization of the Layout Definition Problem for Web Search Results
In the last years the user information seeking process on the Web has shifted from document search to object search. Hence, the answers provided by Web search engines cannot consis...
Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Sara Comai
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Building efficient multi-threaded search nodes
Search nodes are single-purpose components of large Web search engines and their efficient implementation is critical to sustain thousands of queries per second and guarantee indi...
Carolina Bonacic, Carlos García, Mauricio M...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Wisdom of the ages: toward delivering the children's web with the link-based agerank algorithm
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
Karl Gyllstrom, Marie-Francine Moens
INTR
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Classifying the user intent of web queries using k-means clustering
Purpose – Web search engines are frequently used by people to locate information on the Internet. However, not all queries have an informational goal. Instead of information, so...
Ashish Kathuria, Bernard J. Jansen, Carolyn Hafern...
DEBU
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
The Role of Web Services in Information Search
State-of-the-art Web search engines are inherently limited in their abilities to search information in Deep Web beyond portals. This paper discusses how Web services and Semantic-...
Jens Graupmann, Gerhard Weikum
TKDE
2008
198views more  TKDE 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Web People Search via Connection Analysis
Nowadays, searches for the web pages of a person with a given name constitute a notable fraction of queries to Web search engines. Such a query would normally return web pages rela...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Zhaoqi Chen, Sharad Mehrotr...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Towards breaking the quality curse.: a web-querying approach to web people search
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Rabia Nuray-Turan, Sharad M...
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
126views more  CN 2006»
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
ECIR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Learning to Distribute Queries into Web Search Nodes
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...
Marcelo Mendoza, Mauricio Marín, Flavio Fer...