In this paper we propose a hierarchical clustering engine, called SnakeT, that is able to organize on-the-fly the search results drawn from 16 commodity search engines into a hier...
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
Some previous works show that a web page can be partitioned to multiple segments or blocks, and usually the importance of those blocks in a page is not equivalent. Also, it is pro...
Ruihua Song, Haifeng Liu, Ji-Rong Wen, Wei-Ying Ma
Search engines are commercial entities that require revenue to survive. The most prevalent revenue stream for search engines is sponsored search, where content providers have sear...
Search engines have become efficient assistants for people to access information on the Web. Some researchers argue that the prevalence of search engines is setting a tough journ...