Maintaining currency of search engine indices by exhaustive crawling is rapidly becoming impossible due to the increasing size and dynamic content of the web. Focused crawlers aim...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Frans Coetzee, Steve Lawre...
Serendipity occurs when one finds an interesting discovery while searching for something else. In digital libraries, recommendation engines are particularly well-suited for seren...
Building content-based search tools for feature-rich data has been a challenging problem because feature-rich data such as audio recordings, digital images, and sensor data are in...
Qin Lv, William Josephson, Zhe Wang, Moses Charika...
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
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...