Ubiquitous Search Engine

A Navigation engine for ubiquitous computing environments

Because of the human desire of exploration, navigation and wayfinding has been an issue since the early stages of the human civilaization. Compasses, maps, signs and other equipment where discovered to satisfy this need. Later on, the world wide web created a new, virtual space. The human desire for knowledge created a new navigation problem, this time related to the huge amount of data stored ...

Data Search Engine Introduction

Tamil Search Engine

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...

Measuring search engine bias

This paper examines a real-time measure of bias in Web search engines. The measure captures the degree to which the distribution of URLs, retrieved in response to a query, deviates from an ideal or fair distribution for that query. This ideal is approximated by the distribution produced by a collection of search engines. Differences between bias and classical retrieval measures are highlighted ...

External Search Engine Mining

Search engines maintain large amounts of valuable data, such as web content, user queries, clicks, and browsing trails. This data is fully accessible only to the search engines themselves. Other parties, like users, advertisers, and researches, have very limited access to the data via public interfaces provided by search engines (e.g., the search interface). External techniques for mining searc...