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About 20% of the world's population uses the web, and a large majority thereof uses web search engines to find information. As a result many web researchers are devoting much effort to improving the speed and capabilitiy of search technology. ...
One of the main differences between modern search engines and traditional ones is the adoption of link-based ranking algorithm in ordering Web documents. Google has claimed that it is its link-based ranking algorithm, PageRank that has made the quality of ...
This paper presents a system to retrieve and browse images from the Internet containing only one particular object of interest: the human face. This system, called Google Portrait, uses Google Image search engine to retrieve images matching a text query an ...
Search goals are often too complex or poorly defined to be solved in a single query. While refining their search goals, users are likely to apply a variety of strategies, such as searching for more general or more specific concepts in reaction to the infor ...
We find that there lacks a formal algebraic framework in the research area of P2P information retrieval. Such a formal framework is indispensable and pivotal. On the one hand, no solid theoretical foundation can explain why the results of many ad-hoc comme ...
The problems associated with computerized search tools in online product search environments are discussed. The application of the Utility Theory, using a tool for the travel planning domain is illustrated. The features of Isy-Travel, a tool based on Smart ...
IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos;Massey University, Palmerston, CA 90720-1314, United States;New Zealand2004
Exploratory search over a collection often requires users to iteratively apply a variety of strategies, such as searching for more general or more specific concepts in reaction to the information they encounter. Rich semantic models, such as WordNet, are p ...
Web search engines designed on top of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks show promise to enable attractive search scenarios operating at a large scale. However the design of effective indexing techniques for extremely large document collections still rais ...
We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large electronic catalog. We analyze how such systems can help users in the framework of four existing example-critiquing approaches (RABBIT, FindMe, Incremen ...
Preference-based search (PBS) is a popular approach for helping consumers find their desired items from online catalogs. Currently most PBS tools generate search results by a certain set of criteria based on preferences elicited from the current user durin ...
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY 10036-5701, United States2007
