— recently, search engines become more critical for finding information over the World Wide Web where web content growing fast, the user's satisfaction of search engine resu...
Hamada M. Zahera, Gamal F. El-Hady, W. F. Abd El-W...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Query suggestion is an effective approach to improve the usability of image search. Most existing search engines are able to automatically suggest a list of textual query terms b...
Zheng-Jun Zha, Linjun Yang, Tao Mei, Meng Wang, Ze...