Abstract In the Web search process people often think that the hardest work is done by the search engines or by the directories which are entrusted with finding the Web pages. Whi...
The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
Flash, as a multimedia format, becomes more and more popular on the Web. However, previous works on Flash are totally based on low-level features, which make it unpractical to bui...
Dawei Ding, Jun Yang 0003, Liping Wang, Qing Li, W...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...