Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...
This paper presents WordRank, a new page ranking system, which exploits similarity between interconnected pages. WordRank introduces the model of the ‘biased surfer’ which is ...
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...
This paper presents Latent Semantic Googling, a variant of Landauer’s Latent Semantic Indexing that uses the Google search engine to judge the semantic closeness of sets of word...