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Searching the web: The public and their queries [PDF]
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001 In studying actual Web searching by the public at large, we analyzed over one million Web queries by users of the Excite search engine. We found that most people use few search terms, few modified queries, view few Web pages, and rarely use advanced search features. A small number of search terms are used with high frequency, and a great many terms are
Spink, Amanda +3 more
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The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search [PDF]
2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2010 A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of search engine users during a query burst, compared to before and after this period. The purpose of this study is to get insights about how search engines and content providers
Subasic, Ilija, Castillo, Carlos
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Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2022 The proposed research work aims to discuss and explore various constraints of traditional web page search and ranking systems primarily in the present generation of big data.
Dheeraj Malhotra, O.P. Rishi
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Query formulation in web search [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009 AbstractOver 2 billion searches are conducted daily on Web search engines. Some Web searches are re‐finding what was seen before, but many searches are query reformulation or refinements as attempts to retrieve better results. Previous studies have examined query formulation and reformulation from the mid‐seventies to today, including online ...
Amanda Spink +3 more
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Efficient and Effective Query Expansion for Web Search [PDF]
Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018 Query Expansion (QE) techniques expand the user queries with additional terms, e.g., synonyms and acronyms, to enhance the system recall. State-of-the-art solutions employ machine learning methods to select the most suitable terms. However, most of them neglect the cost of processing the expanded queries, thus selecting effective, yet very expensive ...
Lucchese, Claudio +4 more
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Semantic Web Search Based on Ontological Conjunctive Queries [PDF]
Journal of Web Semantics, 2010 Many experts predict that the next huge step forward in Web information technology will be achieved by adding semantics to Web data, and will possibly consist of (some form of) the Semantic Web. In this paper, we present a novel approach to Semantic Web search, called Serene, which allows for a semantic processing of Web search queries, and for ...
Fazzinga B. +3 more
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Web Pages Ranking Algorithms: A Survey
Qubahan Academic Journal, 2021 Due to the daily expansion of the web, the amount of information has increased significantly. Thus, the need for retrieving relevant information has also increased. In order to explore the internet, users depend on various search engines. Search engines
Ayad Abdulrahman
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A Comparative Analysis of Web Search Query: Informational Vs. Navigational Queries
International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019 The search engines are mainly used to retrieve relevant information. Information retrieval researchers show that queries are the basis for providing better search engine performance.
Nuhu Yusuf +2 more
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Query Recommendation Using Hybrid Query Relevance
Future Internet, 2018 With the explosion of web information, search engines have become main tools in information retrieval. However, most queries submitted in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted.
Jialu Xu, Feiyue Ye
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Query expansion based on relevance feedback and latent semantic analysis [PDF]
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, 2014 Web search engines are one of the most popular tools on the Internet which are widely-used by expert and novice users. Constructing an adequate query which represents the best specification of users’ information need to the search engine is an important ...
Marziea Rahimi, Morteza Zahedi
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