Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
Log data constitute a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a search engine and the quality of a multilingual search service; log data can be used to study t...
Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di ...
This paper proposes simple techniques for handling place references in search engine queries, an important aspect of geographical information retrieval. We address not only the de...
Search logs, which contain rich and up-to-date information about users' needs and preferences, have become a critical data source for search engines. Recently, more and more ...
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...