Keyword indices, topic directories, and link-based rankings are used to search and structure the rapidly growing Web today. Surprisingly little use is made of years of browsing ex...
—In spite of numerous search engines available on the web, no single engine is capable of performing “better” under all circumstances. This being the case, metasearch engines...
In order for agents to act on behalf of users, they will have to retrieve and integrate vast amounts of textual data on the World Wide Web. However, much of the useful data on the...
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
ost abstract sense, we build web pages so that computers can read them. The software that people use to access web pages is what "reads" the document. How the page is ren...