Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations. The method uses ...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
Web search engines have become the primary method of accessing information on the web. Billions of queries are submitted to major web search engines, reflecting a wide range of in...
Many search engines and other web applications suggest auto-completions as the user types in a query. The suggestions are generated from hidden underlying databases, such as query...