Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
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...
We introduce `Joint Feature Distributions', a general statistical framework for feature based multi-image matching that explicitly models the joint probability distributions ...
This paper presents a new algorithm for sequence prediction over long categorical event streams. The input to the algorithm is a set of target event types whose occurrences we wis...