Web search engines present search results in a rank ordered list. This works when what a user wants is near the top, but sometimes the information that the user really wants is lo...
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
The University of Portland Office of Computer and Telecommunication Services (CTS) created an Intranet web site for the University community during the summer of 1998. In the summ...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
State of the art web search applications allow the user to aggregate information from many sources. Because of this, users are confronted with having to assess the reliability of ...
Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, Henriette S. M. Cramer, Ly...