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Watters, Carolyn; Amoudi, Ghada – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Discusses search engines and describes a prototype system that provides dynamic ranking of search engine results for geospatial queries based on the URL of the host site. Evaluates this approach using user queries and random Web pages, making a contribution to Web retrieval by providing an alternative ranking order for search engine results.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Geography, Information Retrieval, Search Engines
Lempel, Ronny; Moran, Shlomo – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2002
Discusses the use of link structure analysis in World Wide Web information retrieval and in retrieval and ranking algorithms of search engines. Presents two techniques which bias co-citation based link analyses towards favorable Web pages and away from undesired pages, and are then integrated into existing link-analyzing algorithms. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Citation Analysis, Information Retrieval, Search Engines
