In recent years, there has been a prevalence of search engines being employed to find useful information in the Web as they efficiently explore hyperlinks between web pages which ...
Zhenglu Yang, Lin Li, Botao Wang, Masaru Kitsurega...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
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...
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...