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DASFAA
2004
IEEE
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Applying Co-training to Clickthrough Data for Search Engine Adaptation
The information on the World Wide Web is growing without bound. Users may have very diversified preferences in the pages they target through a search engine. It is therefore a chal...
Qingzhao Tan, Xiaoyong Chai, Wilfred Ng, Dik Lun L...
AIRWEB
2006
Springer
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Improving Cloaking Detection using Search Query Popularity and Monetizability
Cloaking is a search engine spamming technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to users browsin...
Kumar Chellapilla, David Maxwell Chickering
AIRS
2006
Springer
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Improving Re-ranking of Search Results Using Collaborative Filtering
Search Engines today often return a large volume of results with possibly a few relevant results. The notion of relevance is subjective and depends on the user and the context of ...
U. Rohini, Vamshi Ambati
SIGIR
2010
ACM
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Predicting searcher frustration
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
Henry A. Feild, James Allan, Rosie Jones
SIGIR
2010
ACM
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Estimating advertisability of tail queries for sponsored search
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
CNSR
2007
IEEE
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The Application of Users' Collective Experience for Crafting Suitable Search Engine Query Recommendations
Search engines have turned into one of the most important services of the Web that are frequently visited by any user. They assist their users in finding appropriate information. ...
Faezeh Ensan, Ebrahim Bagheri, Mohsen Kahani
PET
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Privacy of Web Search Based on Query Obfuscation: A Case Study of TrackMeNot
Web Search is one of the most rapidly growing applications on the internet today. However, the current practice followed by most search engines – of logging and analyzing users...
Sai Teja Peddinti, Nitesh Saxena
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
245views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
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Keyword generation for search engine advertising using semantic similarity between terms
An important problem in search engine advertising is keyword1 generation. In the past, advertisers have preferred to bid for keywords that tend to have high search volumes and hen...
Vibhanshu Abhishek, Kartik Hosanagar
DL
1998
Springer
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Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
VISUAL
1999
Springer
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Crawling for Images on the WWW
Search engines are useful because they allow the user to nd information of interest from the World-Wide Web. These engines use a crawler to gather information from Web sites. Howev...
Junghoo Cho, Sougata Mukherjea