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Why People Search for Images using Web Search Engines [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2018
What are the intents or goals behind human interactions with image search engines? Knowing why people search for images is of major concern to Web image search engines because user satisfaction may vary as intent varies. Previous analyses of image search behavior have mostly been query-based, focusing on what images people search for, rather than ...
Xie, X.   +5 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Multimedia Chinese Web Search Engines: A Survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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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A Relation-Based Page Rank Algorithm for Semantic Web Search Engines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
With the tremendous growth of information available to end users through the Web, search engines come to play ever a more critical role. Nevertheless, because of their general-purpose approach, it is always less uncommon that obtained result sets provide
Demartini, Claudio Giovanni   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A three-year study on the freshness of Web search engine databases [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Exploring the academic invisible web [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Purpose: To provide a critical review of Bergman's 2001 study on the Deep Web. In addition, we bring a new concept into the discussion, the Academic Invisible Web (AIW).
Dirk Lewandowski   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The Influence of Commercial Intent of Search Results on Their Perceived Relevance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We carried out a retrieval effectiveness test on the three major web search engines (i.e., Google, Microsoft and Yahoo). In addition to relevance judgments, we classified the results according to their commercial intent and whether or not they carried ...
Lewandowski, Dirk
core   +1 more source

Domain-Specific Web Search with Keyword Spices [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +3 more sources

Spatio-textual indexing for geographical search on the web [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geographical terms in the same way as other terms. This can result in failure
Joho, H.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Experience of Developing a Meta-Semantic Search Engine

open access: yes, 2013
Thinking of todays web search scenario which is mainly keyword based, leads to the need of effective and meaningful search provided by Semantic Web. Existing search engines are vulnerable to provide relevant answers to users query due to their dependency
Joshi, Gajanan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

DESIGN OF A PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED WEB SEARCH ENGINE [PDF]

open access: yesParallel Computing, 2002
This paper describes the architecture of MOSE (My Own Search Engine), a scalable parallel and distributed engine for searching the web. MOSE was specifically designed to efficiently exploit affordable parallel architectures, such as clusters of workstations. Its modular and scalable architecture can easily be tuned to fulfill the bandwidth requirements
ORLANDO, Salvatore   +2 more
openaire   +7 more sources

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