Searching and navigating a Web site is a tedious task and the hierarchical models, such as site maps, are frequently used for organizing the Web site's content. In this work,...
Abstract— The current approach in web searching, i.e., centralized search engines, rises issues that question their future applicability: 1) coverage and scalability, 2) freshnes...
In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...
Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith H...
Multiple-topic and varying-length of web pages are two negative factors significantly affecting the performance of web search. In this paper, we explore the use of page segmentati...
A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...