Web spam is behavior that attempts to deceive search engine ranking algorithms. TrustRank is a recent algorithm that can combat web spam. However, TrustRank is vulnerable in the s...
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Abstract. Social bookmarking systems allow users to store links to internet resources on a web page. As social bookmarking systems are growing in popularity, search algorithms have...
Finding a set of web pages relevant to a user’s information goal is difficult due to the enormous size of the Internet. Search engines are able to find a set of pages that mat...