“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
Users on Twitter, a microblogging service, started the phenomenon of adding tags to their messages sometime around February 2008. These tags are distinct from those in other Web 2...
Jeff Huang, Katherine M. Thornton, Efthimis N. Eft...
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...
XML is an emerging standard for data representation and exchange on the World-Wide Web. Due to the nature of information on the Web and the inherent flexibility of XML, we expect...
Cloaking is a search engine spamming technique used by some Web sites to deliver one page to a search engine for indexing while serving an entirely different page to users browsin...