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WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
ESWS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Reducing Ambiguity in Tagging Systems with Folksonomy Search Expansion
Abstract. Search facilities are vital for folksonomy (or social tagging mechanism) based systems. Although these systems allow great malleability and adaptability, they also surfer...
Jeff Z. Pan, Stuart Taylor, Edward Thomas
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
AMR
2007
Springer
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16 years 23 days ago
Searching for Music Using Natural Language Queries and Relevance Feedback
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...
Peter Knees, Gerhard Widmer
EPEW
2007
Springer
16 years 22 days ago
Evaluation of P2P Search Algorithms for Discovering Trust Paths
Abstract. Distributed security models based on a ‘web of trust’ eliminate single points of failure and alleviate performance bottlenecks. However, such distributed approaches r...
Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Aad P. A. van Moorsel, J...