Abstract. Search engines are becoming such an easy way to find textual resources that we wish to use them also for multimedia content; however, syntactic techniques, even if promi...
Irene Celino, Emanuele Della Valle, Dario Cerizza,...
Detection of template and noise blocks in web pages is an important step in improving the performance of information retrieval and content extraction. Of the many approaches propos...
General purpose Web search engines are becoming ineffective due to the rapid growth and changes in the contents of the World Wide Web. Meta-search engines help a bit by having a b...
Leo Yuen, Matthew Chang, Ying Kit Lai, Chung Keung...
YouTube has been the Internet success story of 2006. However, when subjected to conventional usability evaluation it appears to fail miserably. With this and other social Web serv...
Vertical search engines and web portals are gaining ground over the general-purpose engines due to their limited size and their high precision for the domain they cover. The number...
George Almpanidis, Constantine Kotropoulos, Ioanni...