Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Web users are always distracted by a large number of results returned from search engines. Clustering can efficiently facilitate users’ browsing pages of certain topic. However...
Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...