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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
KDD
2006
ACM
167views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Identifying "best bet" web search results by mining past user behavior
The top web search result is crucial for user satisfaction with the web search experience. We argue that the importance of the relevance at the top position necessitates special h...
Eugene Agichtein, Zijian Zheng
HICSS
2007
IEEE
144views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
16 years 19 days ago
Automatic Web Page Categorization using Principal Component Analysis
Today’s search engines retrieve tens of thousands of web pages in response to fairly simple query articulations. These pages are retrieved on the basis of the query terms occurr...
Richong Zhang, Michael A. Shepherd, Jack Duffy, Ca...
ICIW
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Using Propagation of Distrust to Find Untrustworthy Web Neighborhoods
Web spamming, the practice of introducing artificial text and links into web pages to affect the results of searches, has been recognized as a major problem for search engines. Bu...
Panagiotis Takis Metaxas
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang