Searching online has become part of the everyday lives of most people. Whether to look for information about the latest gadget to getting directions to a popular trend, most people have made search engines part of their daily routine. Beyond trivial applications, search engines are increasingly becoming the sole or primary source directing people to essential information. For this reason, searc...

We have to reconsider whether the current structure of search engines provides us with useful results. A modular approach to constructing spiders will facilitate more development, hopefully resulting in new information retrieval techniques. A layered architecture will improve our access to data on the Internet, which is crucial in our information driven society. q 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All...

In a remote or local environment in which a sensor network always collects data produced by sensors attached to physical objects, the engine presented here saves the data sent through the Internet and searches for data segments that correspond to real-world events by using natural language (NL) words in a query that are input in an web browser. The engine translates each query into a physical q...

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...

We present a new approach in web search engines. The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The vast improvement in information access is not the only advantage resulting from the keyword search. Additionally, much potential exists for analyzing interests and relationships within the structure of the web. The creation of a hyperlink by the author of a web page explicitly represen...

With the rapid increase of websites and internet users, the traditional search engine will face great challenge in the real-time search, response speed and the storage of mass pages. However, the search engine deployed in the cloud can solve these shortcomings due to cloud computing with two major advantages in mass data processing and mass data storage. By analyzing the open-source cloud compu...

In this study we examined how authority-related epistemological beliefs (AREBs) affect the evaluation of web search results presented by a search engine. Moreover, we investigated whether increasing the salience of source information on a search engine result page fosters students’ evaluation processes, and whether the salience of source information moderates the effects of AREBs. Thirty univer...