Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
Cellular telephony systems, where locations of mobile users are unknown at some times, are becoming more common. In such systems, mobile users are roaming in a zone and a user repo...
Recent statistical performance surveys of search algorithms in difficult combinatorial problems have demonstrated the benefits of randomising and restarting the search procedure. ...
Recent performance improvements in storage hardware have benefited bandwidth much more than latency. Among other implications, this trend favors large B-tree pages. Recent perform...
In recent years, while search engines have become more and more powerful, several specialized search engines have been developed for different domains (e.g. library services, serv...