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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

Looking into the growth of information in the web it is a very tedious process of getting the exact information the user is looking for. Many search engines generate user profile related data listing. This paper involves one such process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-12 L. K. Joshila Grace , V. Maheswari , Dhinaharan Nagamalai

Good websites should be easy to navigate via hyperlinks, yet maintaining a high-quality link structure is difficult. Identifying pairs of pages that should be linked may be hard for human editors, especially if the site is large and changes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Ashwin Paranjape , Robert West , Leila Zia , Jure Leskovec

Looking into the growth of information in the web it is a very tedious process of getting the exact information the user is looking for. Many search engines generate user profile related data listing. This paper involves one such process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-12 L. K. Joshila Grace , V. Maheswari , Dhinaharan Nagamalai

Wikipedia hyperlinks have primarily been studied as navigational tools for readers, but their role in how information providers move between articles during editing remains less explored. Here, we combine the hyperlink network among English…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Yeonji Seo , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Hang-Hyun Jo , Yohsuke Murase

The Internet has significantly expanded the potential for global collaboration, allowing millions of users to contribute to collective projects like Wikipedia. While prior work has assessed the success of online collaborations, most…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Abraham Israeli , David Jurgens , Daniel Romero

Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias. The lack of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-24 Fumiko Ogushi , János Kertész , Kimmo Kaski , Takashi Shimada

Websites have an inherent interest in steering user navigation in order to, for example, increase sales of specific products or categories, or to guide users towards specific information. In general, website administrators can use the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Florian Geigl , Kristina Lerman , Simon Walk , Markus Strohmaier , Denis Helic

PageRank is arguably the most popular ranking algorithm which is being applied in real systems ranging from information to biological and infrastructure networks. Despite its outstanding popularity and broad use in different areas of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Manuel Sebastian Mariani , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Philipp Singer , Florian Lemmerich , Robert West , Leila Zia , Ellery Wulczyn , Markus Strohmaier , Jure Leskovec

Nowadays, information describing navigation behaviour of internet users are used in several fields, e-commerce, economy, sociology and data science. Such information can be extracted from different knowledge bases, including…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Célestin Coquidé , Włodzimierz Lewoniewski

A simple dynamical model of collective edit activity of Wikipedia articles and their content evolution is introduced. Based on the recent empirical findings, each editor in the model is characterized by an ability to make content edit,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-04-25 Takashi Shimada , Fumiko Ogushi , Janos Torok , Janos Kertesz , Kimmo Kaski

The latest generation of Web search tools is beginning to exploit hypertext link information to improve ranking\cite{Brin98,Kleinberg98} and crawling\cite{Menczer00,Ben-Shaul99etal,Chakrabarti99} algorithms. The hidden assumption behind…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Filippo Menczer

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Daniele Rama , Tiziano Piccardi , Miriam Redi , Rossano Schifanella

A large part of the hidden web resides in weblog servers. New content is produced in a daily basis and the work of traditional search engines turns to be insufficient due to the nature of weblogs. This work summarizes the structure of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-03-25 A. Kritikopoulos , M. Sideri , I. Varlamis

A model for the probabilistic function followed in Wikipedia edition is presented and compared with simulations and real data. It is argued that the probability to edit is proportional to the editor's number of previous editions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-27 Y. Gandica , F. Sampaio dos Aidos , J. Carvalho

Social tagging has become an interesting approach to improve search and navigation over the actual Web, since it aggregates the tags added by different users to the same resource in a collaborative way. This way, it results in a list of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Arkaitz Zubiaga

The proliferation of social media has the potential for changing the structure and organization of the web. In the past, scientists have looked at the web as a large connected component to understand how the topology of hyperlinks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Tommy Nguyen , Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Apples, porcupines, and the most obscure Bob Dylan song---is every topic a few clicks from Philosophy? Within Wikipedia, the surprising answer is yes: nearly all paths lead to Philosophy. Wikipedia is the largest, most meticulously indexed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Mark Ibrahim , Christopher M. Danforth , Peter Sheridan Dodds

PageRank is a Web page ranking technique that has been a fundamental ingredient in the development and success of the Google search engine. The method is still one of the many signals that Google uses to determine which pages are most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Massimo Franceschet