In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
Duplication of Web pages greatly hurts the perceived relevance of a search engine. Existing methods for detecting duplicated Web pages can be classified into two categories, i.e. o...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Due to the enormous increase in the stored digital contents, search and retrieval functionalities are necessary in multimedia systems. Though processor speed for standard PCs (Per...