Applying information retrieval techniques to the World Wide Web (WWW) environment is a
challenge, mostly because of its hypertext/hypermedia nature and the richness of the meta …

In contrast with the current Web search methods that essentially do document-level ranking
and retrieval, we are exploring a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level. We …

Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of
information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their …

The definition of efficient page ranking algorithms is becoming an important issue in the
design of the query interface of Web search engines. Information flooding is a common …

Effective search and retrieval are enabling technologies for realizing the full potential of the
Web. The authors examine relevant issues, including methods for representing document …

Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of research on the use of content and
links of Web pages to improve the quality of Web page rankings returned by search engines …

In the last years, several techniques based in link analysis have been proposed and used in
search engines to rank Web pages. As links are generated by humans, link based ranking …

We propose a new model to interpret the clickthrough logs of a web search engine. This
model is based on explicit assumptions on the user behavior. In particular, we draw …

Hyperlink analysis algorithms significantly improve the relevance of the search results on the
Web, so much so that all major Web search engines claim to use some type of hyperlink …

This paper proposes the evaluation methods for measuring retrieval effectiveness of Web
search engine systems, attempting to make them suitable for real Web environment. With …