Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
The current search engine model considers users not trustworthy, so no tools are provided to let them specify what they are looking for or in what context, which severely limits wh...
As the social interaction of Internet users increases, so does the need to effectively rank social media. We study the challenges of personalized ranking of blog posts. Web search...
Hassan Sayyadi, John Edmonds, Vagelis Hristidis, L...
Many Web sites have begun allowing users to submit items to a collection and tag them with keywords. The folksonomies built from these tags are an interesting topic that has seen ...
Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...