Search engines largely rely on Web robots to collect information from the Web. Due to the unregulated open-access nature of the Web, robot activities are extremely diverse. Such c...
In previous research it has been shown that link-based web page metrics can be used to predict experts’ assessment of quality. We are interested in a related question: do expert...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual quali...
Camille Prime-Claverie, Michel Beigbeder, Thierry ...
Much progress has recently been made in assisting a user in the search process, be it Web search where the big search engines have now all incorporated more interactive features or...