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SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search engines and their public interfaces: which apis are the most synchronized?
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Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior
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Exploring reductions for long web queries
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Web search solved?: all result rankings the same?
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Evolution of web search results within years
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Rank-energy selective query forwarding for distributed search systems
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Despite the continuous efforts to improve the web search quality, a non-negligible fraction of user queries end up with very few or even no matching results in leading web search engines. In this work, we provide a detailed characterization of such queries based on an analysis of a real-life query log. Our experimental setup allows us to characterize the queries with few/no results and compare the mechanisms employed by the major search engines in handling them.