In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...
Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, si...