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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
SDM
2009
SIAM
125views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Providing Privacy through Plausibly Deniable Search.
Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
Chris Clifton, Mummoorthy Murugesan
NIPS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
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CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
"I know what you did last summer": query logs and user privacy
We investigate the subtle cues to user identity that may be exploited in attacks on the privacy of users in web search query logs. We study the application of simple classifiers ...
Rosie Jones, Ravi Kumar, Bo Pang, Andrew Tomkins
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan