: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
Web search engines like Google have made us all smarter by providing ready access to the world's knowledge whenever we need to look up a fact, learn about a topic or evaluate...