This paper proposes a three-stage analysis of web navigation that yields search results being relevant to the user’s interests and preferences. The approach is inspired by ant fo...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
In this paper we study the characteristics of search queries submitted from mobile devices using various Yahoo! oneSearch applications during a 2 months period in the second half ...
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
Web applications increasingly utilize search techniques that heavily rely on content-based text and image analyses. For example, for parental site filtering, it is necessary to id...