Search effectiveness with a breadth-first crawl

  • Authors:
  • Dennis Fetterly;Nick Craswell;Vishwa Vinay

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Mountain View, CA, USA;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kngdm;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kngdm

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Previous scalability experiments found that early precision improves as collection size increases. However, that was under the assumption that a collection's documents are all sampled with uniform probability from the same population. We contrast this to a large breadth-first web crawl, an important scenario in real-world Web search, where the early documents have quite different characteristics from the later documents.