Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...
Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search e...
: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have sear...
Aggregate ranking tasks are those where documents are not the final ranking outcome, but instead an intermediary component. For instance, in expert search, a ranking of candidate ...