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 ...
As the amount of personal information stored at remote service providers increases, so does the danger of data theft. When connections to remote services are made in the clear and ...
Claude Castelluccia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Danie...
: The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has led to a miniexplosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led...
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...