We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
Current Web search tools do a good job of retrieving documents that satisfy the wide range of intentions that people associate with a query – but do not do a very good job of di...
In the sponsored search model, search engines are paid by businesses that are interested in displaying ads for their site alongside the search results. Businesses bid for keywords...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...