Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...
Query result caching is an important mechanism for search engine efficiency. In this study, we first review several query features that are used to determine the contents of a sta...
: Collaborative querying seeks to help users formulate an accurate query to a search engine by sharing expert knowledge or other users' search experiences. One approach to acc...
Lin Fu, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Schubert Shou-Boon Foo,...