In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Computer users are asked to generate, keep secret, and recall an increasing number of passwords for uses including host accounts, email servers, e-commerce sites, and online finan...
The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sites containing such opinions, e.g., customer reviews of products, forums, disc...
When a query is submitted to a search engine, the search engine returns a dynamically generated result page containing the result records, each of which usually consists of a link...