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UM
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Google Shared. A Case-Study in Social Search
Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
ASSETS
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Improving non-visual web access using context
To browse the Web, blind people have to use screen readers, which process pages sequentially, making browsing timeconsuming. We present a prototype system, CSurf, which provides a...
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, Dipanjan Das, I. V. ...
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
What queries are likely to recur in web search?
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A probabilistic model based approach for blended search
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen