The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
We consider the problem of combining ranking results from various sources. In the context of the Web, the main applications include building meta-search engines, combining ranking...
Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor, D. Sivakumar
Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
Relational search is a novel paradigm of search which focuses on the similarity between semantic relations. Given three words (A, B, C) as the query, a relational search engine ret...