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2011
ACM
13 years 2 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
13 years 2 months ago
Counting triangles and the curse of the last reducer
The clustering coefficient of a node in a social network is a fundamental measure that quantifies how tightly-knit the community is around the node. Its computation can be reduce...
Siddharth Suri, Sergei Vassilvitskii
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 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
13 years 2 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...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Estimating sizes of social networks via biased sampling
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
Liran Katzir, Edo Liberty, Oren Somekh