Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving towa...
We investigate the subtle cues to user identity that may be exploited in attacks on the privacy of users in web search query logs. We study the application of simple classifiers ...
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...
Intelligence analysts are flooded with massive amounts of data from a multitude of sources and in many formats. From this raw data they attempt to gain insight that will provide de...
The placement of Websites in ranked retrieval and the viewing patterns of Web search engine users is a crucial issue for Web site owners and Web search engines. However, little la...