General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...
We present a computational framework to automatically discover high-order temporal social patterns from very noisy and sparse location data. We introduce the concept of social foo...
This paper describes a series of user studies on how people use the Web via mobile devices. The data primarily comes from contextual inquiries with 47 participants between 2004 an...
Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam detection techniques are usually designed for specific known types of Web spa...
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...