One hundred users, one hundred needs. As more and more topics are being discussed on the web and our vocabulary remains relatively stable, it is increasingly difficult to let the ...
Many of today's Web applications support just simple trial-anderror retrievals: supply one set of parameters, obtain one set of results. For a user who wants to examine a num...
In this paper, we consider the possibility of altering the PageRank of web pages, from an administrator's point of view, through the modification of the PageRank equation. It...
Duplicate URLs have brought serious troubles to the whole pipeline of a search engine, from crawling, indexing, to result serving. URL normalization is to transform duplicate URLs...
Tao Lei, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Yan Ke, Xiaodon...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...