Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar business that generates most of the revenue for search engines. Predicting the probability that users click on ads is crucial to sponsor...
Activity in social media such as blogs, micro-blogs, social networks, etc is manifested via interaction that involves text, images, links and other information items. Naturally, s...
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
In this paper, we study search bot traffic from search engine query logs at a large scale. Although bots that generate search traffic aggressively can be easily detected, a large ...
Complex systems exhibit emergent patterns of behavior at different levels of organization. Powerful network analysis methods, developed in physics and social sciences, have been s...
Andre Nash, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Premkuma...