several semantic image search schemes have been recently proposed to retrieve images from the web. however, the query context is regularly ignored in these techniques and hence, many of the returned images are not adequately relevant. in this paper, we make use of context to further confine the outcome of the semantic search engines. for this purpose, we propose a hybrid search engine which uti...

In this research we investigate the effect of search engine brand on the evaluation of searching performance. Our research is motivated by the large amount of search traffic directed to a handful of Web search engines, even though many have similar interfaces and performance. We conducted a laboratory experiment with 32 participants using a 42 factorial design confounded in four blocks tomeasur...

When emerging technologies such as Search Engine Marketing (SEM) face tasks that require human level intelligence, it is inevitable to use the knowledge repositories to endow the machine with the breadth of knowledge available to humans. Keyword suggestion for search engine advertising is an important problem for sponsored search and SEM that requires a goldmine repository of knowledge. A recen...

Currently, search engines suffer from conceptual problems despite the application of refi ned techniques. The fundamental problem lies in the absence of classical information processing concepts in search engine processing. The limitation of search engines in phrase processing is highlighted in this paper. The results of search engine retrievals are compared with propriety database search resul...

Web crawlers have been used for nearly a decade as a search engine component to create and update large collections of documents. Typically the crawler and the rest of the search engine are not closely integrated. If the purpose of a search engine is to have as large a collection as possible to serve the general Web community, a close integration may not be necessary. However, if the search eng...

A search engine that runs over all domains must give equal weight to all words. However, if a search engine is domain specific it is intuitive that some words are more important than others. These are words specific to the domain. They should carry different weight which will affect the ranking. In this paper I have explored search in the clothing domain. I have extracted important features and...

Web log mining provides tremendous information about user traffic and search engine behavior at web sites. The behavior of search engines could be used in analyzing server load, quality of search engines, dynamics of search engine crawlers, ethics of search engines etc. Search engine crawlers are highly automated programs which are seldom regulated manually. These crawlers periodically visit th...

The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The amount of information on the web, as well as the number of new users is growing rapidly. Search engine technology has to scale dramatically to keep up with the growth of the web. In this paper, we present the details of constructing and maintaining a Tamil Search Engine. We discuss the issues such as the crawler, the database storage...