Tiptoe is a private web search engine that allows clients to search over hundreds of millions
of documents, while revealing no information about their search query to the search engine's …

The exploitation of user search queries by search engines is at the heart of their economic
model. As consequence, offering private Web search functionalities is essential to the users …

By regularly querying Web search engines, users (unconsciously) disclose large amounts of
their personal data as part of their search queries, among which some might reveal sensitive …

This paper proposes lightweb, a new system for private browsing. A lightweb client can
browse a web of text-based pages without revealing to anyone---not the network, not the …

Since the advent of hand held devices (eg, smartphones, tablets, smart watches) with
Ubiquitous computing and the wide popularity of location-based mobile applications, the …

The digitization initiatives in the past decades have led to a tremendous increase in digitized
objects in the cultural heritage domain. Although digitally available, these objects are often …

With the advancement in ICT, web search engines have become a preferred source to find
health‐related information published over the Internet. Google alone receives more than …

Abstract The World Wide Web is the most widely used service on the Internet, although only
a small part of it, the Surface Web, is indexed and accessible. The rest of the content, the …

Users around the world send queries to the Web Search Engine (WSE) to retrieve data from
the Internet. Users usually take primary assistance relating to medical information from WSE …

Web search engines usually keep users' profiles for multiple purposes, such as result
ranking and relevancy, market research, and targeted advertisements. However, user web …