Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
The ImpressionRank of a web page (or, more generally, of a web site) is the number of times users viewed the page while browsing search results. ImpressionRank captures the visibi...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
We present the design of Dynabot, a guided Deep Web discovery system. Dynabot's modular architecture supports focused crawling of the Deep Web with an emphasis on matching, p...
Daniel Rocco, James Caverlee, Ling Liu, Terence Cr...
Web masters usually place certain web pages such as home pages and index pages in front of others. Under such a design, it is necessary to go through some pages to reach the desti...