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CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Location cache for web queries
This paper proposes a strategy to reduce the amount of hardware involved in the solution of search engine queries. It proposes using a secondary compact cache that keeps minimal i...
Mauricio Marín, Flavio Ferrarotti, Marcelo ...
WWW
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
User Access Pattern Enhanced Small Web Search
Current search engines generally employ link analysis techniques to web-page re-ranking. However, the same techniques are problematic in small webs, such as websites or intranet w...
Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen, Wei-Ying M...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
Uichin Lee, Zhenyu Liu, Junghoo Cho
IWPC
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Archetypal Source Code Searches: A Survey of Software Developers and Maintainers
In this study, we conducted a survey to generate archetypes of source code searching by programmers across maintenance tasks. Using a questionnaire on a web page, we obtained 69 r...
Susan Elliott Sim, Charles L. A. Clarke, Richard C...
WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Sampling search-engine results
We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...