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 ...
In a number of recent studies [4, 8] researchers have found that because search engines repeatedly return currently popular pages at the top of search results, popular pages tend ...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...
This paper focuses on using hyperlinks in the ranking of web search results. We give a brief overview of the vast body of work in the area; we provide a quantitative comparison of ...