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 …

Online popularity has an enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits. We
provide a quantitative, large scale, temporal analysis of the dynamics of online content …

The key factors for the success of the World Wide Web are its large size and the lack of a
centralized control over its contents. Both issues are also the most important source of …

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, available in more than 100 languages and comprising
over 1 million articles in its English version. If we consider each Wikipedia article as a node …

Online popularity has enormous impact on opinions, culture, policy, and profits, especially
with the advent of the social Web and Web advertising. Yet the processes that drive …

The Web has been around and maturing for 25 years. The popular websites of today have
undergone vast changes during this period, with a few being there almost since the …

This paper presents an extensive study about the evolution of textual content on the Web,
which shows how some new pages are created from scratch while others are created using …

Web Structure Mining Page 1 Chapter 5 Web Structure Mining Ricardo Baeza-Yates ⋆ and
Paolo Boldi Abstract. This chapter covers the basic properties, concepts and models of the …

From the very beginning of the origins of the Web at CERN, one big question remains
unanswered: What is the optimum structure and content of a web site in order to attract the …

User behaviour in data intensive applications such as the Web-based applications
represents a complex set of actions influenced by plenty of factors. Thanks to this complexity …