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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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15 years 3 months ago
Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking
In a number of recent studies [4, 8] researchers have found that because search engines repeatedly return currently popular pages at the top of search results, popular pages tend ...
Junghoo Cho, Sourashis Roy, Robert Adams
NIPS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Ryen W. White, Jeff Huang
WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Resolving Person Names in Web People Search
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke