A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
: In this paper we propose and evaluate interfaces for presenting the results of web searches. Sentences, taken from the top retrieved documents, are used as fine-grained represent...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
—Current keyword search by Google, Yahoo, and so on gives enormous unsuitable results. A solution to this perhaps is to annotate semantics to textual web data to enable semantic ...
This article describes a geographical study on the usage of a search engine, focusing on the traffic details at the level of countries and continents. The main objective is to un...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Christian Middleton, Carlo...