Children are among the most frequent users of the Internet, yet searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Studies over the past two decades on how children searc...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Leshell Hatley, Eva...
Exploring an appropriate business application published as a Web Service in the UDDI registry is a critical issue. Search for such an application should be effective in terms of t...
Liang-Jie Zhang, Haifei Li, Henry Chang, Tian Chao
The lack of a large scale Chinese test collection is an obstacle to the Chinese information retrieval development. In order to address this issue, we built such a collection compos...
A website can regulate search engine crawler access to its content using the robots exclusion protocol, specified in its robots.txt file. The rules in the protocol enable the site...
The rapid growth of the web has been noted and tracked extensively. Recent studies have however documented the dual phenomenon: web pages have small half lives, and thus the web e...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, Andr...