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COMPSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Excalibur: A Personalized Meta Search Engine
General purpose Web search engines are becoming ineffective due to the rapid growth and changes in the contents of the World Wide Web. Meta-search engines help a bit by having a b...
Leo Yuen, Matthew Chang, Ying Kit Lai, Chung Keung...
WEBDB
1999
Springer
108views Database» more  WEBDB 1999»
14 years 4 months ago
Exploiting Geographical Location Information of Web Pages
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
Orkut Buyukkokten, Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Moli...
INAP
2001
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Modern Approach to Searching the World Wide Web: Ranking Pages by Inference over Content
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...
Bronson Trevor, Edgar Weippl, Werner Winiwarter
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Page hunt: improving search engines using human computation games
There has been a lot of work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines. In this paper, we suggest using human computation games to elicit data from players t...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
BTW
2003
Springer
140views Database» more  BTW 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
An Ontology for Domain-oriented Semantic Similarity Search on XML Data
Abstract: Query languages for XML such as XPath or XQuery support Boolean retrieval where a query result is a (possibly restructured) subset of XML elements or entire documents tha...
Anja Theobald
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Implicit link analysis for small web search
Current Web search engines generally impose link analysis-based re-ranking on web-page retrieval. However, the same techniques, when applied directly to small web search such as i...
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying M...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Adapting to the user's internet search strategy on small devices
World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
Jean-David Ruvini
ERCIMDL
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Next Generation Search Interfaces - Interactive Data Exploration and Hypothesis Formulation
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...
Jane Hunter, Katya Falkovych, Suzanne Little
SSD
2005
Springer
129views Database» more  SSD 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
Spatio-textual Indexing for Geographical Search on the Web
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
ITNG
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Overlap Among Major Web Search Engines
Purpose – This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: mea...
Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sh...