The utility of an enterprise search system is determined by three key players: the information retrieval (IR) system (the search engine), the enterprise users, and the service pro...
Mingfang Wu, James A. Thom, Andrew Turpin, Ross Wi...
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
We explore the application of a graph representation to model similarity relationships that exist among images found on the Web. The resulting similarity-induced graph allows us t...
Barbara Poblete, Benjamin Bustos, Marcelo Mendoza,...