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WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Web search engines have historically focused on connecting people with information resources. For example, if a person wanted to know when their flight to Hyderabad was leaving, a...
Lydia B. Chilton, Jaime Teevan
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Differences in the mechanics of information diffusion across topics: idioms, political hashtags, and complex contagion on twitte
There is a widespread intuitive sense that different kinds of information spread differently on-line, but it has been difficult to evaluate this question quantitatively since it ...
Daniel M. Romero, Brendan Meeder, Jon M. Kleinberg
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Network bucket testing
Bucket testing, also known as A/B testing, is a practice that is widely used by on-line sites with large audiences: in a simple version of the methodology, one evaluates a new fea...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Track globally, deliver locally: improving content delivery networks by tracking geographic social cascades
Providers such as YouTube offer easy access to multimedia content to millions, generating high bandwidth and storage demand on the Content Delivery Networks they rely upon. More ...
Salvatore Scellato, Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musoles...
EDBT
2011
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
The hidden web, XML and the Semantic Web: scientific data management perspectives
The World Wide Web no longer consists just of HTML pages. Our work sheds light on a number of trends on the Internet that go beyond simple Web pages. The hidden Web provides a wea...
Fabian M. Suchanek, Aparna S. Varde, Richi Nayak, ...