The use of blogs to track and comment on real world (political, news, entertainment) events is growing. Similarly, as more individuals start relying on the Web as their primary in...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks are gaining increasing popularity in many distributed applications such as file-sharing, network storage, web caching, searching and indexing of releva...
Sponsored search auction is used by most search engines to select ads to display on the web page of a search result, according to advertisers’ bidding prices. The income of this ...
In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
One of the most important steps in web crawling is determining the starting points, or seed selection. This paper identifies and explores the problem of seed selection in webscal...