Web spam is a widely-recognized threat to the quality and security of the Web. Web spam pages pollute search engine indexes, burden Web crawlers and Web mining services, and expos...
We present a method for learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web. In our approach, proper nouns are expanded into new queries aimed at maximizing the probab...
How to effectively protect against spam on search ranking results is an important issue for contemporary web search engines. This paper addresses the problem of combating one majo...
Guoyang Shen, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Guang Feng, Sh...
Argues that metrics can be generated from search transactional Web logs that can help evaluate search engine effectiveness. Search logs from the BBC Website were analysed and metr...
Paul Huntington, David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali M...
A typical web search engine consists of three principal parts: crawling engine, indexing engine, and searching engine. The present work aims to optimize the performance of the cra...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Alexander N. Dudin, Valent...