In this paper we report our research on building WebSail { an intelligent web search engine that is able to perform real-time adaptive learning. WebSail learns from the user'...
Zhixiang Chen, Xiannong Meng, Binhai Zhu, Richard ...
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...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Purpose: To provide a critical review of Bergman’s 2001 study on the Deep Web. In addition, we bring a new concept into the discussion, the Academic Invisible Web (AIW). We defi...
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...