To improve the scalability of the Web it is common practice to apply caching and replication techniques. Numerous strategies for placing and maintaining multiple copies of Web doc...
Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tan...
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
Abstract— In this work, web-based metrics for semantic similarity computation between words or terms are presented and compared with the state-of-the-art. Starting from the funda...
The dominant method for evaluating search engines is the Cranfield paradigm, but the existing metrics do not consider some modern search engines features, such as document snippets...
In this paper, we present two ways to improve the precision of HITS-based algorithms on Web documents. First, by analyzing the limitations of current HITS-based algorithms, we pro...