Many sources on the Internet and elsewhere rank the objects in query results according to how well these objects match the original query. For example, a real-estate agent might r...
Click data captures many users’ document preferences for a query and has been shown to help significantly improve search engine ranking. However, most click data is noisy and of...
Abstract. Most existing search engines employ static ranking algorithms that do not adapt to the specific needs of users. Recently, some researchers have studied the use of clickth...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...