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SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 29 days ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
LOCA
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Web-Enhanced GPS
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...
Ramaswamy Hariharan, John Krumm, Eric Horvitz
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
159views GIS» more  GISCIENCE 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
The SPIRIT Spatial Search Engine: Architecture, Ontologies and Spatial Indexing
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
VLDB
2000
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
15 years 10 months ago
Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
Junyan Ding, Luis Gravano, Narayanan Shivakumar
EMNLP
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Mining Search Engine Clickthrough Log for Matching N-gram Features
User clicks on a URL in response to a query are extremely useful predictors of the URL's relevance to that query. Exact match click features tend to suffer from severe data s...
Huihsin Tseng, Longbin Chen, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang...