—This paper investigates the Direct Connect (DC) file sharing network, which to the best of our knowledge, has never been academically studied before. We developed a participati...
Contextual Advertising is a type of Web advertising, which, given the URL of a Web page, aims to embed into the page (typically via JavaScript) the most relevant textual ads avail...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, Evgeniy Ga...
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Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
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