Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Finding out about a topic online can be time consuming. It involves visiting multiple news sites, encyclopedia entries, video repositories and other resources while discarding irr...
Francisco Iacobelli, Kristian J. Hammond, Larry Bi...
The upcoming next generation of the internet, often referred to as the Semantic Web, will bring a lot of new technologies, one of which is the Web Ontology Language (OWL). One fea...