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...

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 ...

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...

The Internet marks the era of Information revolution. The Internet has been largely dominated by English till recently. The importance of reaching out to non-English speakers around the globe has been felt increasingly and this has lead to the spread of other languages on the Internet. Tamil is the fastest growing language in Internet among the Indian languages. With the number of Tamil website...

In this paper, we will describe an idea and its implementation for an ngram search engine for very large sets of ngrams. The engine supports queries with an arbitrary number of wildcards. It takes a fraction of a second for a search, and can provide the fillers of the wildcards. We implemented the system using two datasets. One is the 1 billion 5-grams provided by Google (Web 1T data), the othe...

Open Data is now collecting attention for innovative service creation, mainly in the area of government, bioscience, and smart X project. However, to promote its application more for consumer services, a search engine for Open Data to know what kind of data are there would be of help. This paper presents a voice assistant which uses Open Data as its knowledge source. It is featured by improveme...

Nowadays, managing for optimal security to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has emerged as an active research area. The challenging topics in this active research involve various issues such as energy consumption, routing algorithms, selection of sensors location according to a given premise, robustness, and efficiency. Despite the open problems in WSNs, already a high number of applications ava...