The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
People regularly interact with different representations of Web pages. A person looking for new information may initially find a Web page represented as a short snippet rendered b...
Jaime Teevan, Edward Cutrell, Danyel Fisher, Steve...
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...