It is well known that Web-page classification can be enhanced by using hyperlinks that provide linkages between Web pages. However, in the Web space, hyperlinks are usually sparse...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
This paper presents a simple and intuitive method for mining search engine query logs to get fast query recommendations on a large scale industrial-strength search engine. In orde...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...