Searchers have a choice about which Web search engine they use when looking for information online. If they are unsuccessful on one engine, users may switch to a different engine ...
In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
Abstract. Collaborative Web Search (CWS) proposes a case-based approach to personalizing search results for the needs of a community of like-minded searchers. The search activities...
Social networking sites have been increasingly gaining popularity. Well-known sites such as Facebook have been reporting growth rates as high as 3% per week [5]. Many social netwo...
Short Messaging Service (SMS) based mobile information services have become increasingly common around the world, especially in emerging regions among users with low-end mobile de...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Eric A. Br...