In this paper we study the characteristics of search queries submitted from mobile devices using various Yahoo! oneSearch applications during a 2 months period in the second half ...
The collective contributions of billions of users across the globe each day result in an ever-changing web. In verticals like news and real-time search, recency is an obvious sign...
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...
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...
In using web search engines, there are cases where the name of the target object is unavailable, and the user can only give the visual descriptions of the object. The existing keyw...