Through a variety of means, including a range of browser cache methods and inspecting the color of a visited hyperlink, client-side browser state can be exploited to track users a...
Collin Jackson, Andrew Bortz, Dan Boneh, John C. M...
In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
According to a recent survey made by Nielsen NetRatings, searching on news articles is one of the most important activity online. Indeed, Google, Yahoo, MSN and many others have p...
Gianna M. Del Corso, Antonio Gulli, Francesco Roma...