CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Though children frequently use web search engines to learn, interact, and be entertained, modern web search engines are poorly suited to children's needs, requiring relativel...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
The objective of this work is to derive quantitative statements about what fraction of web search queries issued to the state-of-the-art commercial search engines lead to excellen...
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
The retrieval of similar documents in the Web from a given document is different in many aspects from information retrieval based on queries generated by regular search engine use...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
JUCS
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
Sponsored search mechanisms have drawn much attention from both academic community and industry in recent years since the seminal papers of [3] and [4]. However, most of the exist...
VLDB
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
Current search engines can hardly cope adequately with fuzzy predicates defined by complex preferences. The biggest problem of search engines implemented with standard SQL is that...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
CN
1999
13 years 7 months ago
1999
Recent researchhas studied howto measurethe size of a searchengine, in terms of the number of pages indexed. In this paper, we consider a di erent measure for search engines, name...
CN
1998
13 years 7 months ago
1998
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the...