The internet is a valuable source of information where many ideas can be found dealing with
different topics. A few numbers of ideas might be able to solve an existing problem …

The goal of this research is to evaluate the effect of ad rank on the performance of keyword
advertising campaigns. We examined a large‐scale data file comprised of nearly 7,000,000 …

Weak semantic techniques rely on the integration of Semantic Web techniques with social
annotations and aim to embrace the strengths of both. In this article, we propose a novel …

This thesis presents algorithms and techniques for increasing a search service's
understanding of web queries. Existing search services rely solely on a query's occurrence …

The Archive Query Log (AQL) is a previously unused, comprehensive query log collected at
the Internet Archive over the last 25 years. Its first version includes 356 million queries, 137 …

This article presents the results of a survey that evaluated the advantages of using text
clouds, a technique for visualization of information, used to present the results of a search …

We report on a survey about people's cross-session search activities in their everyday work
and life. We recruited a broad range of participants (N= 110) using the Amazon Mechanical …

Much of this book describes the algorithms behind search engines and information retrieval
systems. By contrast, this chapter focuses on the human users of search systems, and the …

Key to any research involving session search is the understanding of how a user's queries
evolve throughout the session. When a user creates a query reformulation, he or she is …

Transaction logs from four different Web-based information retrieval environments
(bibliographic databank, OPAC, search engine, specialized search system) were analyzed …