Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
A collaborative crawler is a group of crawling nodes, in which each crawling node is responsible for a specific portion of the web. We study the problem of collecting geographical...
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
Web performance measurements and availability tests have been carried out using a variety of infrastructures over the last several years. Disruptions in the Internet can lead to W...
Balachander Krishnamurthy, Harsha V. Madhyastha, O...
This paper presents the design and user evaluation of SmartBack, a feature that complements the standard Back button by enabling users to jump directly to key pages in their navig...