Complex web information structures prevent search engines from providing satisfactory context-sensitive retrieval. We see that in order to overcome this obstacle, it is essential to use techniques that recover the web authors' intentions and superimpose them with the users' retrieval contexts in summarizing web sites. Therefore, in this paper, we present a framework for discovering implicit ass...

Environmental information is the basis for improving the environmental situation in the EU. The challenge poses the tailoring of information to a defined group of interest and not only the technical possibility to retrieve the environmental information. Even though, the technical infrastructure for retrieving public environmental information is the first step. Hence, the clear understanding of ...

Web-based recommendation strategy implemented in a cadastre information system is presented in the paper. This method forms the list of page profiles recommended to a given user. The idea of page recommendation uses the concept of a page profile for system pages containing forms with search criteria. The calculation of rank values for page profiles is based on the usage frequency and the signif...

Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users’ queries to multiple conventional search engines and integrating their partial searching results generated by each search engine. How to find the best search engine for user queries is know as the selection problem of search engines. Recently, the selection problem has become a...

As digital music collections grow, so does the need to organizing them automatically. In this paper we present an approach to hierarchically organize music collections at the artist level. Artists are grouped according to similarity which is computed using a web search engine and standard text retrieval techniques. The groups are described by words found on the webpages using term selection tec...

Search engines usually offer a date restricted search on their advanced search pages. But determining the actual update of a web page is not without problems. We conduct a study testing date restricted queries on the search engines Google, Teoma and Yahoo!. We find that these searches fail to work properly in the examined engines. We discuss implications of this for further research and search ...

Sponsored search is a new application domain for the feature selection area of research. When a user searches for products or services using the Internet, most of the major search engines would return two sets of results: regular web pages and paid advertisements. An advertising company provides a set of keywords associated with an ad. If one of these keywords is present in a user’s query, the ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze how search engines index web content inserted in image attributes for alternative/complementary texts that favor web page accessibility. The study discussed the importance of optimizing websites to improve search tool indexing and explored how these engines index image attributes. We conducted empirical observations of tests carried out in a controlled en...

This paper develops a flexible methodology to analyze the effectiveness of different variables on various dependent variables which all are times series and especially shows how to use a time series regression on one of the most important and primary index (page views per visit) on Google analytic and in conjunction it shows how to use the most suitable data to gain a more accurate result. Sear...

To better meet users’ underlying navigational requirement, search engines like Baidu has developed general recommendation engine and provided related entities on the right side of the search engine results page(SERP). However, users’ behavior have not been well investigated after the association of individual queries in search engine. To better understand users’ navigational activities, we prop...