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WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
User-centric Web crawling
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
Sandeep Pandey, Christopher Olston
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
IDEAL
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
E.Coli Search: Self Replicating Agents for Web Based Information Retrieval
: Although search engines are often used for information retrieval (IR) from the World Wide Web (WWW), current search engine technology seems obsolete. The quality of query results...
Derrick Takeshi Mirikitani, Ibrahim Kushchu
AIR
2004
98views more  AIR 2004»
15 years 6 months ago
Further Experiments on Collaborative Ranking in Community-Based Web Search
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Defection detection: predicting search engine switching
Searchers have a choice about which Web search engine they use when looking for information online. If they are unsuccessful on one engine, users may switch to a different engine ...
Allison P. Heath, Ryen W. White