Graphical relationships among web pages have been leveraged as sources of information in methods for ranking search results. To date, specific graphical properties have been used ...
We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...
We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...