Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

The proliferation of searchable text databases on corporate networks and the Internet
causes a database selection problem for many people. Algorithms such as gGLOSS and …

Web search engines generally treat search requests in isolation. The results for a given
query are identical, independent of the user, or the context in which the user made the …

Federated search (federated information retrieval or distributed information retrieval) is a
technique for searching multiple text collections simultaneously. Queries are submitted to a …

Web search engines have stored in their logs information about users since they started to
operate. This information often serves many purposes. The primary focus of this survey is on …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents an algorithm to derive content summaries from
“uncooperative” databases by using “focused query probes,” which adaptively zoom in on …

The proliferation of searchable text databases on local area networks and the Internet
causes the problem of finding information that may be distributed among many disjoint text …

The contents of many valuable web-accessible databases are only accessible through
search interfaces and are hence invisible to traditional web “crawlers.” Recent studies have …

US7206780B2 - Relevance value for each category of a particular search result in the
ranked list is estimated based on its rank and actual relevance values - Google Patents …

Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets
hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms …