Many have speculated that classifying web pages can improve a search engine's ranking of results. Intuitively results should be more relevant when they match the class of a q...
Paul N. Bennett, Krysta Marie Svore, Susan T. Duma...
We describe and analyze a new approach for feature ranking in the presence of categorical features with a large number of possible values. It is shown that popular ranking criteria...
With the increasing importance of search in guiding today's web traffic, more and more effort has been spent to create search engine spam. Since link analysis is one of the m...
Theoretical analysis of the Web graph is often used to improve the efficiency of search engines. The PageRank algorithm, proposed by [5], is used by the Google search engine [4] t...
A link farm is a set of web pages constructed to mislead the importance of target pages in search engine results by boosting their link-based ranking scores. In this paper, we int...