Indexing quality has an overwhelming effect on retrieval effectiveness of search engines. In the past few years it has become one of the major challenges in the search engines are...
I show that the World Wide Web is a small world, in the sense that sites are highly clustered yet the path length between them is small. I also demonstrate the advantages of a sear...
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
Jie Xu, Qinglan Li, Huiming Qu, Alexandros Labrini...
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...