In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
When a query is submitted to a search engine, the search engine returns a dynamically generated result page containing the result records, each of which usually consists of a link...
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
Yang Sun, Ziming Zhuang, Isaac G. Councill, C. Lee...