Web Search is one of the most rapidly growing applications on the internet today. However, the current practice followed by most search engines – of logging and analyzing users...
As web search providers seek to improve both relevance and response times, they are challenged by the ever-increasing tax of automated search query traffic. Third party systems in...
Gregory Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
Krysta Marie Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais,...
Purpose – This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: mea...
Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sh...
Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...