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In this article we will look at the PageRank algorithm used as part of the ranking process of different Internet pages in search engines by for example Google. This article has its main focus in the understanding of the behavior of PageRank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Christopher Engström , Sergei Silvestrov

Users issue queries to Search Engines, and try to find the desired information in the results produced. They repeat this process if their information need is not met at the first place. It is crucial to identify the important words in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kishaloy Halder , Heng-Tze Cheng , Ellie Ka In Chio , Georgios Roumpos , Tao Wu , Ritesh Agarwal

Search engines play a crucial role in shaping public discourse by influencing how information is accessed and framed. While prior research has extensively examined various dimensions of search bias -- such as content prioritization,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Amrit Poudel , Tim Weninger

A typical web search engine consists of three principal parts: crawling engine, indexing engine, and searching engine. The present work aims to optimize the performance of the crawling engine. The crawling engine finds new web pages and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-20 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Alexander Dudin , Valentina Klimenok , Philippe Nain , Olga Semenova

Search engines are nowadays one of the most important entry points for Internet users and a central tool to solve most of their information needs. Still, there exist a substantial amount of users' searches which obtain unsatisfactory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-23 Daniel Gayo-Avello , David J. Brenes

This paper gives an absolute new search system that builds the information retrieval infrastructure for Internet. Now most search engine companies are mainly concerned with how to make profit from company users by advertisement and ranking…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wang Liang , Guo Yiping , Fang Ming

Contextual retrieval is a critical technique for today's search engines in terms of facilitating queries and returning relevant information. This paper reports on the development and evaluation of a system designed to tackle some of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Dilip K. Limbu , Andy M. Connor , Russel Pears , Stephen G. MacDonell

Majority of the currently available webpages are dynamic in nature and are changing frequently. New content gets added to webpages and existing content gets updated or deleted. Hence, people find it useful to be alert for changes in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Vijini Mallawaarachchi , Lakmal Meegahapola , Roshan Alwis , Eranga Nimalarathna , Dulani Meedeniya , Sampath Jayarathna

Websites are regarded as domains of limitless information which anyone and everyone can access. The new trend of technology put us to change the way we are doing our business. The Internet now is fastly becoming a new place for business and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Ikechukwu Onyenwe , Ebele Onyedinma , Chidinma Nwafor , Obinna Agbata

When a retrieval system receives a query it has encountered before, previous relevance feedback, such as clicks or explicit judgments can help to improve retrieval results. However, the content of a previously relevant document may have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jüri Keller , Maik Fröbe , Gijs Hendriksen , Daria Alexander , Martin Potthast , Matthias Hagen , Philipp Schaer

The advent of LLMs has given rise to a new type of web search: Generative search, where LLMs retrieve web pages related to a query and generate a single, coherent text as a response. This output modality stands in stark contrast to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Elisabeth Kirsten , Jost Grosse Perdekamp , Mihir Upadhyay , Krishna P. Gummadi , Muhammad Bilal Zafar

As web technologies evolve, web archivists work to keep up so that our digital history is preserved. Recent advances in web technologies have introduced client-side executed scripts that load data without a referential identifier or that…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Mat Kelly , Justin F. Brunelle , Michele C. Weigle , Michael L. Nelson

A heightened interest in the presence of the past has given rise to the new field of memory studies, but there is a lack of search and research tools to support studying how and why the past is evoked in diachronic discourses. Searching for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Alex Olieman , Kaspar Beelen , Jaap Kamps

There is a growing demand for transparency in search engines to understand how search results are curated and to enhance users' trust. Prior research has introduced search result explanations with a focus on how to explain, assuming…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Prerna Juneja , Wenjuan Zhang , Alison Marie Smith-Renner , Hemank Lamba , Joel Tetreault , Alex Jaimes

Search engines play an essential role in our daily lives. Nonetheless, they are also very crucial in enterprise domain to access documents from various information sources. Since traditional search systems index the documents mainly by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Gizem Gezici

Being based on Web technologies, Linked Data is distributed and decentralised in its nature. Hence, for the purpose of finding relevant Linked Data on the Web, search indices play an important role. Also for avoiding network communication…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Thomas Gottron

Blogs are undoubtedly the richest source of information available in cyberspace. Blogs can be of various natures i.e. personal blogs which contain posts on mixed issues or blogs can be domain specific which contains posts on particular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Deepti Kapri , Rosy Madaan , A. K Sharma , Ashutosh Dixit

Older adults' need for quality health information has never been more critical as during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, they are susceptible to the wide-spread misinformation disseminated through search engines and social media. To build a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Zhaopeng Xing , Xiaojun Yuan , Lisa Vizer

Web Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) are one of the most well-known and used web pages. These pages have started as simple ``10 blue links'' pages, but the information in SERP currently goes way beyond these links. Several features have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-20 B. Oliveira , C. T. Lopes

Voice search is becoming a popular mode for interacting with search engines. As a result, research has gone into building better voice transcription engines, interfaces, and search engines that better handle inherent verbosity of queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Apoorv Narang , Srikanta Bedathur