The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examines characteristics and changes in Web searching from nine studies of five Web search engines based in the US and Europe. We compare interactions occurring between users and Web search engines from the perspectives of s...

We complete the task, begun in [19], of determining when the central norm (determined by the infrastructure of the underlying real quadratic field) is equal to 2 in the simple continued fraction expansion of the associated quadratic surd.

We describe briefly the Palomar-Quest (PQ) digital synoptic sky survey, including its parameters, data processing, status, and plans. Exploration of the time domain is now the central scientific and technological focus of the survey. To this end, we have developed a real-time pipeline for detection of transient sources. We describe some of the early results, and lessons learned which may be use...

1 Surveys are an easy, important and reliable method to measure the “pulse” of the organization’s stake-holders. A survey helps in identifying improvements to current products, services and business processes. With the advent of the Web, it is now easy to conduct large-scale on-line surveys. However, it is a challenge to analyze the responses to derive novel, interesting, actionable insights an...

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The traditional web crawlers retrieve contents from only the “Surface web” and are unable to crawl through the hidden portion of the Web containing high quality information which is dynamically generated through querying databases when the queries are submitted through a search interface. For Hidden web, most of the published research has been done to identify/detect such searchable forms and m...

Multimedia Web searching is a significant information activity for many people. Major Web search engines are critical resources in people’s efforts to locate relevant online multimedia information. It is therefore important that we understand how searchers are utilizing these Web information systems in their quest to retrieve multimedia information to design effective Web systems in support of ...