Abstract The World Wide Web has rapidly become a key medium for information
dissemination to all members of society. However, its disorganized nature and sheer size …

Many tools exist to provide subject access to information stored on the Web. These include
both automatic search engines such as 'crawler'programs and manually‐created subject …

Web search needs no introduction. Due to its convenience and the richness of information
on the Web, searching the Web is increasingly becoming the dominant information seeking …

A Web query consists of one or more search terms. Queries are an integral component of
Web searching and the expression of a searcher's information problem to the Web search …

Web resources fall into two classes: documents and services. The bulk of the work on
resource discovery focuses on the automatic creation of searchable indices of Web …

In this chapter we provide our personal vision of what could be the next generation of Web
search engines, outlining the main research challenges that derive from it. This vision is …

Save yourself hours of frustration with the third edition of this easy-to-use search engine
guideNupdated top-to-bottom to reflect recent overhauls in the major search sites. Shows …

The inspiration for this book emerged from the editors' participation in a panel d-cussion on
Web search engines at an annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. This …

Research on Web searching is at an incipient stage. This aspect provides a unique
opportunity to review the current state of research in the field, identify common trends …

In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search
(CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to …