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News trends and web search query of HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The HIV epidemic in Hong Kong has worsened in recent years, with major contributions from high-risk subgroup of men who have sex with men (MSM). Internet use is prevalent among the majority of the local population, where they sought health information ...
Alice P Y Chiu, Qianying Lin, Daihai He
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Using web search query data to monitor dengue epidemics: a new model for neglected tropical disease surveillance.

open access: goldPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BackgroundA variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and lack of resources have interfered with timely detection and reporting of dengue cases in many endemic countries.
Emily H Chan   +3 more
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Proxy-Terms Based Query Obfuscation Technique for Private Web Search [PDF]

open access: goldIEEE Access, 2022
Search engines store users’ queries in a query log for performing personalized information retrieval. However, query logs cause privacy concerns and reveal a lot of information about individuals if used against them.
Shariq Bashir   +2 more
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Nowcasting Mobile Games Ranking Using Web Search Query Data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2016
In recent years, the Internet has become embedded into the purchasing decision of consumers. The purpose of this paper is to study whether the Internet behavior of users correlates with their actual behavior in computer games market.
Yoones A. Sekhavat
doaj   +2 more sources

Assessing Ebola-related web search behaviour: insights and implications from an analytical study of Google Trends-based query volumes [PDF]

open access: goldInfectious Diseases of Poverty, 2015
BackgroundThe 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa has attracted public interest worldwide, leading to millions of Ebola-related Internet searches being performed during the period of the epidemic.
Cristiano Alicino   +7 more
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Private Web Search Using Proxy-Query Based Query Obfuscation Scheme

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
People use web search engines to retrieve information from the world wide web. Search engines maintain query logs to refine retrieved information for personalized web search.
Shariq Bashir, Akmal Saeed Khattak
doaj   +2 more sources

Effect of Query Formation on Web Search Engine Results

open access: bronze, 2013
Query in a search engine is generally based on natural language. A query can be expressed in more than one way without changing its meaning as it depends on thinking of human being at a particular moment.
Bisht, Ila Pant, Bisht, Raj Kishor
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Domain-specific queries and Web search personalization: some investigations [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2015
Major search engines deploy personalized Web results to enhance users' experience, by showing them data supposed to be relevant to their interests. Even if this process may bring benefits to users while browsing, it also raises concerns on the selection ...
Van Tien Hoang   +4 more
doaj   +8 more sources

World Wide Web Metasearch Clustering Algorithm [PDF]

open access: yesInformatică economică, 2008
As the storage capacity and the processing speed of search engine is growing to keep up with the constant expansion of the World Wide Web, the user is facing an increasing list of results for a given query.
Adina LIPAI
doaj   +2 more sources

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