GIPSY: automated geographic indexing of text documents
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: spatial information
Automatic association of new items
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on electronic news
Automatic resource compilation by analyzing hyperlink structure and associated text
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Geospatial mapping and navigation of the web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Modern Information Retrieval
Spatial SQL: A Query and Presentation Language
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Mobile information search for location-based information
Computers in Industry
Inferring document utility via a decision-making based retrieval model
International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
Toward traffic-driven location-based web search
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Calculation of target locations for web resources
WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
WAIM'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in Web-Age Information Management
Modeling geographic, temporal, and proximity contexts for improving geotemporal search
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The likelihood property in general retrieval operations
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Criteria of query-independent page significance in geospatial web search
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
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Many web queries have geospatial dimensions. While online shopping is built on the premise that distance and location are irrelevant (with the possible exception of shipping charges), tourism and onsite inspection of goods have a geospatial dimension and distance and location are relevant factors. Current search engines build indices based on keyword occurrence and frequency for query negotiation using these indices. This approach is fast, robust, and generic but when queries are related to physical locations and distances rather than cyberdistances this approach leaves the user to sort through pages of results. In this paper, we describe an algorithm that assigns location coordinates dynamically to web sites based on the URL. A prototype search system was built using this algorithm that uses this information to re-rank the results of search engines for queries with a geospatial dimension. We found that over 80% of the URLs tested could be assigned correct location coordinates. This work makes a contribution to retrieval on the web by providing an alternative ranking order for search engine results so that users with queries with a geospatial dimension can more readily use the results of general search engines rather than special purpose applications.