: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
d Abstract) Paolo Boldi† Massimo Santini‡ Sebastiano Vigna∗ Deciding which kind of visit accumulates high-quality pages more quickly is one of the most often debated issue i...
This paper shares our experience in designing a web crawler that can download billions of pages using a single-server implementation and models its performance. We show that with ...
In this paper, we analyze the performance of parallel multithreaded algorithms that use dag-consistent distributed shared memory. Specifically, we analyze execution time, page fau...
Robert D. Blumofe, Matteo Frigo, Christopher F. Jo...
Web Directories are repositories of Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topics and sub-topics. In this paper, we present DirectoryRank, a ranking framework that orders the pages...
Vlassis Krikos, Sofia Stamou, Pavlos Kokosis, Alex...