Image searching on the Excite Web search engine

Web searching on the Vivisimo search engine

representing 100% of site traffic during these periods and 2,029,734 queries overall. The results show that the highest percentage of queries contained two terms. The highest percentage of search sessions contained one query and was less than 1 minute in duration. Almost half of user interactions with clusters consisted of displaying a cluster's result set, and a small percentage of interaction...

Web Image Search Engine Evaluation

Multimedia Web Searching on a Meta-Search Engine

This paper provides preliminary results from a major study of multimedia Web searching by Dogpile meta-search engine users, including queries and session characteristics, and changes or differences in image, video and audio searching. The results are compared with multimedia Web searching studies from 1997 to 2002. Image and sexual queries are dominant in multimedia Web searching. The paper pro...

Searching the Web: a survey of EXCITE users

Web search services are now a major source of information for a growing number of people. We need to know more about how users search Web search engines to improve the effectiveness of their information retrieval. This paper reports results from a major study exploring users’ information searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. The study is the first to investigate Web users’ success...

Web Image Retrieval Search Engine based on Semantically Shared Annotation

This paper presents a new majority voting technique that combines the two basic modalities of Web images textual and visual features of image in a re-annotation and search based framework. The proposed framework considers each web page as a voter to vote the relatedness of keyword to the web image, the proposed approach is not only pure combination between image low level feature and textual fe...