The Hypertext-based Webs such as Intranets contain a vast amount of information pertaining to an enormous number of subjects. It is, however, an organically grown and thus essentia...
—Information about individuals on publicly available web sites stands as a valuable, yet unorganized, data source. Turning such an enormous data source into a “database” is h...
The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
Almost conventional search engines employ centralized architecture. However, such an engine is not suitable for fresh information retrieval because it spends a long time to collec...
Current crawler-based search engines usually return a long list of search results containing a lot of noise documents. By indexing collected documents on topic path in taxonomy, t...
It is observed that there is an important query requirement missing for search engines. With the wide variation of domain knowledge and user's interest, a user would like to ...
Abstract— Recent advances in graph-based search techniques derived from Kleinberg’s work [1] have been impressive. This paper further improves the graph-based search algorithm ...
This paper addresses several problems associated with the specification of Web searches, and the retrieval, filtering, and rating of Web pages in order to improve the relevance, pr...
: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...