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ADC
2004
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Performance and Cost Tradeoffs in Web Search.
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Dr. Searcher and Mr. Browser: a unified hyperlink-click graph
We introduce a unified graph representation of the Web, which includes both structural and usage information. We model this graph using a simple union of the Web's hyperlink ...
Barbara Poblete, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis
EDBT
2010
ACM
177views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 11 days ago
PerK: personalized keyword search in relational databases through preferences
Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
Kostas Stefanidis, Marina Drosou, Evaggelia Pitour...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho