We propose a distributed mechanism for finding websurfing strategies that is inspired by the StumbleUpon recommendation engine. Each day, a websurfer visits a sequence of websites ...
The presence of replicas or near-replicas of documents is very common on the Web. Documents may be replicated completely or partially for different reasons (versions, mirrors, etc...
Ernesto Di Iorio, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Go...
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...
An ever-increasing amount of information on the Web today is available only through search interfaces: the users have to type in a set of keywords in a search form in order to acc...
Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...