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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search [PDF]
, 2008 Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine
Pollock, Rufus
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What Users Ask a Search Engine: Analyzing One Billion Russian Question Queries [PDF]
, 2015 We analyze the question queries submitted to a large commercial web search engine to get insights about what people ask, and to better tailor the search results to the users’ needs.
Braslavski, P. +5 more
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Topical result caching in web search engines [PDF]
Information Processing & Management, 2020 Caching search results is employed in information retrieval systems to expedite query processing and reduce back-end server workload. Motivated by the observation that queries belonging to different topics have different temporal-locality patterns, we investigate a novel caching model called STD (Static-Topic-Dynamic cache). It improves traditional SDC
Mele I +3 more
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1998 This review looks briefly at the history of World Wide Web search engine development, considers the current state of affairs, and reflects on the future. Networked discovery tools have evolved along with Internet resource availability. World Wide Web search engines display some complexity in their variety, content, resource acquisition strategies, and ...
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Energy Efficiency in Web Search Engines [PDF]
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2015 Today, Web search is a frequent action in the everyday life of many people. To perform it on a large scale, Web companies need energy-hungry data center, which raise environmental and economical challenges. For these reasons, Green Information Retrieval promotes energy and energy-cost awareness in contemporary Web search engines.
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A three-year study on the freshness of Web search engine databases [PDF]
, 2008 This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Yahoo, and MSN/Live.com.
Lewandowski, Dirk
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Credibility in Web Search Engines [PDF]
, 2012 Web search engines apply a variety of ranking signals to achieve user satisfaction, i.e., results pages that provide the best-possible results for the user. While these ranking signals implicitly consider credibility (e.g., by measuring popularity), explicit measures of credibility are not applied.
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City networks in cyberspace and time : using Google hyperlinks to measure global economic and environmental crises [PDF]
, 2011 Geographers and social scientists have long been interested in ranking and classifying the cities of the world. The cutting edge of this research is characterized by a recognition of the crucial importance of information and, specifically, ICTs to cities’
Boulton, Andrew +4 more
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Domain-Specific Web Search with Keyword Spices [PDF]
, 2004 Domain-specific web search engines are effective tools for reducing the difficulty in acquiring information from the web. Existing methods for building domain-specific web search engines require human expertise or specific facilities.
Satoshi Oyama +2 more
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The Snippets Taxonomy in Web Search Engines [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper authors analyzed 50 000 keywords results collected from localized Polish Google search engine. We proposed a taxonomy for snippets displayed in search results as regular, rich, news, featured and entity types snippets. We observed some correlations between overlapping snippets in the same keywords. Results show that commercial keywords do
Artur Strzelecki, Paulina Rutecka
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