Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
An important problem in search engine advertising is keyword1 generation. In the past, advertisers have preferred to bid for keywords that tend to have high search volumes and hen...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Flash, as a multimedia format, becomes more and more popular on the Web. However, previous works on Flash are totally based on low-level features, which make it unpractical to bui...
Dawei Ding, Jun Yang 0003, Liping Wang, Qing Li, W...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...