Latent relational search is a new search paradigm based on the degree of analogy between two word pairs. A latent relational search engine is expected to return the word Paris as a...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, le...
Experienced web users have strategies for information search and re-access that are not directly supported by web browsers or search engines. We studied how prevalent these strate...
This study introduces methods for evaluating search engine performance over a time period. Several measures are defined, which as a whole, describe search engine functionality ove...