We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
Started in 1998, the search engine Google estimates page importance using several parameters. PageRank is one of those. Precisely, PageRank is a distribution of probability on the ...
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...
Given a document repository, search engine is very helpful to retrieve information. Currently, vertical search is a hot topic, and Google Scholar [4] is an example for academic se...
Ye Wang, Zhihua Geng, Sheng Huang, Xiaoling Wang, ...