Finding relevant information on the Web can be a complex task for most of the users. Although Web search applications are improving, they still need to be more intelligent to adapt...
The currently booming search engine industry has determined many online organizations to attempt to artificially increase their ranking in order to attract more visitors to their ...
Link spam deliberately manipulates hyperlinks between web pages in order to unduly boost the search engine ranking of one or more target pages. Link based ranking algorithms such ...
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
The proliferation of knowledge-sharing communities like Wikipedia and the advances in automated information extraction from Web pages enable the construction of large knowledge ba...