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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
doaj   +3 more sources

Efficient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search [PDF]

open access: greenFoundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, 2018
Search engines are exceptionally important tools for accessing information in today’s world. In satisfying the information needs of millions of users, the effectiveness (the quality of the search results) and the efficiency (the speed at which the ...
Nicola Tonellotto   +2 more
semanticscholar   +7 more sources

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

Web Search Query Privacy, an End-User Perspective

open access: diamond, 2017
While search engines have become vital tools for searching information on the Internet, privacy issues remain a growing concern due to the technological abilities of search engines to retain user search logs.
Kato Mivule
openalex   +3 more sources

Using web search query data to monitor dengue epidemics: a new model for neglected tropical disease surveillance.

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Effect of Query Formation on Web Search Engine Results

open access: gold, 2023
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.
Raj Kishor Bisht
openalex   +3 more sources

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

Evaluating the retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines using a representative query sample [PDF]

open access: greenJ. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2014
Search engine retrieval effectiveness studies are usually small scale, using only limited query samples. Furthermore, queries are selected by the researchers.
Dirk Lewandowski
openalex   +3 more sources

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
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