One of the key components of current Web search engines is the document collector. This paper describes CoBWeb, an automatic document collector, whose architecture is distributed ...
Altigran Soares da Silva, Eveline A. Veloso, Paulo...
Resource discovery in a distributed digital library poses many challenges, one of which is how to choose search engines for query distribution, given a query and a set of search e...
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...
Existing web search engines provide users with the ability to query an off-line database of indices in order to decide on an entry point for further manual navigation. Results are...
Most Internet search engines are keyword-based. They are not efficient for the queries where geographical location is important, such as finding hotels within an area or close to ...
Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is di cult for a person to determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution is to...
King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Adrian Sa...
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
—Caching is a popular technique for reducing both server load and user response time in distributed systems. In this paper, we consider the question of whether caching might be e...
Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) is a distributed search engine, which can update indexes in very short time for the purpose of fresh information retrieval. In CSE, the retrieval p...
Search engines are key components in the online world and the choice of search engine is an important determinant of the user experience. In this work we seek to model user behavio...