We have developed a distributed search engine, called Cooperative Search Engine (CSE), in order to retrieve fresh information. In CSE, a local search engine located in each Web server makes an index of local pages. And, a Meta search server integrates these local search engines in order to realize a global search engine. In such a way, the communication delay occurs at retrieval time. So, we ha...

Page Ranking plays a vital role in search engine optimization. When user searches on web via search engine, web page links are displayed on user screen according to their page rank. In this paper techniques to improve page rank and image search accuracy have been discussed. Number of web sites and web pages are increasing day by day. To display page links from most relevant to least relevant we...

The data extraction from the dynamically generated web pages is a challenging factor because the result of the search engines are always different for every query submitted. Many techniques were proposed to address this issue but most of them have the common problem of language-dependency. In order to overcome the limitations of previous works, there are few ways which analyze visual features o...

Ranking in website of a search engine or what we call as the Pagerank is very important in the search results to display relevant and appropriate to the level of importance. Search results in the search engines always associate with the relevant results on the first page, other than that on page 5 and onwards. Using URL Shortener has now become a trend, especially for those who use a shortener ...

There is no doubt that Search Engines are playing a great role in Internet usage. But all the top search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing are having a critical flaw called “Openness of a Search Engine”. An Internet user should be allowed to get the search results only when requested through Search engine’s web page but the user must not be allowed to get the search results when requested through ...

As a rapidly booming industry in recent years, the key problem for Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is to extract web page attributes contributed to the ranking in search engine such as Google and Baidu. The quantitative analysis of these agricultural page attributes is aimed in this paper and the attribute extractor in Java platform is built. Meantime, in order to gain a sample set, a batch gaini...

General de Universidades, EDU2011-25885). We thank three anonymous reviewers for their helpful input in a previous version of the paper. Web users tend to search only the pages displayed at the top of the search engine results page (the 'top link' heuristic). Although it might be reasonable to use this heuristic to navigate simple and unambiguous facts, it might be risky when searching for conf...

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a webometric analysis of web sites of medical universities of Iran. This study was conducted in Sept 2012 using Majestic SEO, Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines. The number of web pages, external inlinks, rich files and the total rank for 43 universities with active exclusive web sites were calculated. Findings indicated that Tehran Uni...