This paper shares our experience in designing a web crawler that can download billions of pages using a single-server implementation and models its performance. We show that with ...
Improving the precision of information retrieval has been a challenging issue on Chinese Web. As exemplified by Chinese recipes on the Web, it is not easy/natural for people to us...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
Online news reading has become very popular as the web provides access to news articles from millions of sources around the world. A key challenge of news websites is to help user...
Queries on major Web search engines produce complex result pages, primarily composed of two types of information: organic results, that is, short descriptions and links to relevan...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Andrei Z. Broder...