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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Sitemaps: above and beyond the crawl of duty
Comprehensive coverage of the public web is crucial to web search engines. Search engines use crawlers to retrieve pages and then discover new ones by extracting the pages' o...
Uri Schonfeld, Narayanan Shivakumar
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 1 days ago
SkipBlock: Self-indexing for Block-Based Inverted List
In large web search engines the performance of Information Retrieval systems is a key issue. Block-based compression methods are often used to improve the search performance, but c...
Stéphane Campinas, Renaud Delbru, Giovanni ...
INFOSCALE
2007
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Load-balancing and caching for collection selection architectures
— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
ICDE
2002
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Distributed Web Crawler
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Vladislav Shkapenyuk, Torsten Suel