A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
We present several methods for mining knowledge from the query logs of the MSN search engine. Using the query logs, we build a time series for each query word or phrase (e.g., `Th...
Michail Vlachos, Christopher Meek, Zografoula Vage...
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
In advertising and content relevancy prediction it is important to understand whether, over time, information that reaches one demographic group spreads to others. In this paper w...
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...