Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...
Conservation of information (COI) popularized by the no free lunch theorem is a great leveler of search algorithms, showing that on average no search outperforms any other. Yet in ...
We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
This paper introduces GSSS (Genetic State-Space Search). The integration of two general search paradigms — genetic search and state-space-search provides a general framework whi...
This paper studies the following question: given an instance of the propositional satisfiability problem, a randomized satisfiability solver, and a cluster of n computers, what i...