Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
A database query caching technique, GlobeCBC, can be used to improve the scalability of Web applications. This paper addresses the availability issues in GlobeCBC. Even though hig...
Louis Rilling, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guilla...
Machine learning for predicting user clicks in Webbased search offers automated explanation of user activity. We address click prediction in the Web search scenario by introducing...
Ding Zhou, Levent Bolelli, Jia Li, C. Lee Giles, H...
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...