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Tailored retrieval of health information from the web for facilitating communication and empowerment of elderly people [PDF]
A patient, nowadays, acquires health information from the Web mainly through a “human-to-machine” communication process with a generic search engine. This, in turn, affects, positively or negatively, his/her empowerment level and the “human-to-human ...
Alfano, Marco+3 more
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Multimedia Chinese Web Search Engines: A Survey [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to explore the state of multimedia search functionality on major general and dedicated Web search engines in Chinese language.
Arroyo, Miguel+2 more
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Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
In this paper we present an analysis of an AltaVista Search Engine query log consisting of approximately 1 billion entries for search requests over a period of six weeks.
Craig Silverstein+3 more
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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search [PDF]
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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Challenges in web search engines
This article presents a high-level discussion of some problems in information retrieval that are unique to web search engines. The goal is to raise awareness and stimulate research in these areas.
Henzinger, Monika R.+2 more
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Quantification of competitive value of documents
The majority of Internet users use the global network to search for different information using fulltext search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, or Seznam.
Pavel Šimek+2 more
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Automatic Geotagging of Russian Web Sites [PDF]
The poster describes a fast, simple, yet accurate method to associate large amounts of web resources stored in a search engine database with geographic locations.
Braslavski, P.+3 more
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IntegromeDB: an integrated system and biological search engine
Background With the growth of biological data in volume and heterogeneity, web search engines become key tools for researchers. However, general-purpose search engines are not specialized for the search of biological data. Description Here, we present an
Baitaluk Michael+3 more
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Building an Argument Search Engine for the Web
Computational argumentation is expected to play a critical role in the future of web search. To make this happen, many search-related questions must be revisited, such as how people query for arguments, how to mine arguments from the web, or how to rank ...
Henning Wachsmuth+9 more
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Topical result caching in web search engines [PDF]
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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