Educational websites and electronic encyclopaedias employ many of the same design elements, such as hyperlinks, frames and search mechanisms. This paper asks to what extent recomm...
Nowadays, Web encyclopedias suffer from a high bounce rate. Typically, users come to an encyclopaedia from a search engine and upon reading the first page on the site they leave it...
Historical prices are important information that can help consumers decide whether the time is right to buy a product. They provide both a context to the users, and facilitate the...
Just as email spam has negatively impacted the user messaging experience, the rise of Web spam is threatening to severely degrade the quality of information on the World Wide Web....
Many modern natural language-processing applications utilize search engines to locate large numbers of Web documents or to compute statistics over the Web corpus. Yet Web search e...