Abstract. We aim to develop a technique to detect search engine optimization (SEO) spam websites. Specifically, we propose four methods for extracting the SEO spam entries from a ...
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
The AncestorRank algorithm calculates an authority score by using just one characteristic of the web graph—the number of ancestors per node. For scalability, we estimate the num...
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...