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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 16 days ago
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
MDM
2009
Springer
269views Communications» more  MDM 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
R-U-In? - Exploiting Rich Presence and Converged Communications for Next-Generation Activity-Oriented Social Networking
—With the growing popularity of social networking, traditional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Telecom operators have both started exploring new opportunities to boost thei...
Nilanjan Banerjee, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Koustuv D...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Ya Xu, David Mease
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Using wikipedia categories for ad hoc search
In this paper we explore the use of category information for ad hoc retrieval in Wikipedia. We show that techniques for entity ranking exploiting this category information can als...
Rianne Kaptein, Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps
DATESO
2007
107views Database» more  DATESO 2007»
15 years 1 months ago
Work with Knowledge on the Internet - Local Search
Authors are looking within their research grant new original web local search algorithm respecting specifics of Czech national environment. We would like to initiate further debate...
Antonin Pavlicek, Josef Muknsnabl