Typical web sessions can be hijacked easily by a network eavesdropper in attacks that have come to be designated "sidejacking." The rise of ubiquitous wireless networks,...
We consider the problem of ranking refinement, i.e., to improve the accuracy of an existing ranking function with a small set of labeled instances. We are, particularly, intereste...
The World Wide Web allows users to create and publish a variety of resources, including multimedia ones. Most of the contemporary best practices for designing web interfaces, howe...
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...