Abstract. It the becomes possible that users can get kinds of information by just inputting search keyword(s) representing the topic which users are interested in. But it is not al...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
-- Searching for medical information on the Web is popular and important. However, medical search has its own unique requirements that are poorly handled by existing medical Web se...
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...