: A mass of heterogeneous, distributed and dynamic information on the World Wide Web (the Web) has resulted in "information overload". It's an important and urgent r...
Jicheng Wang, Xiangyu Jin, Yang Xiaojiang, Fuyan Z...
: After several years of research, the fundamental Semantic Web technologies have reached a high maturity level. Nevertheless, the average Web user has not yet taken advantage of t...
Web search engines discover indexable documents by recursively ‘crawling’ from a seed URL. Their rankings take into account link popularity. While this works well, it introduc...
Tom Rowlands, David Hawking, Ramesh Sankaranarayan...
We analyzed transaction logs containing 51,473 queries posed by 18,113 users of Excite, a major Internet search service. We provide data on: (i) sessions - changes in queries durin...
Nowadays, Web encyclopedias suffer from a high bounce rate. Typically, users come to an encyclopaedia from a search engine and upon reading the first page on the site they leave it...