WebQuery: searching and visualizing the Web through connectivity
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Automatic resource compilation by analyzing hyperlink structure and associated text
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Automatically summarising Web sites: is there a way around it?
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Information and knowledge management
A case study in web search using TREC algorithms
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Effective site finding using link anchor information
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Local versus global link information in the Web
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Who Links to Whom: Mining Linkage between Web Sites
ICDM '01 Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
ACM SIGIR Forum
Query-independent evidence in home page finding
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Challenges in enterprise search
ADC '04 Proceedings of the 15th Australasian database conference - Volume 27
Log-based indexing to improve web site search
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Improving website search with server log analysis and multiple evidence combination
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
Bayesian network based business information retrieval model
Knowledge and Information Systems
High quality expertise evidence for expert search
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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Link information, especially anchor text, is known to be very useful for effective ranking of web pages, particularly in response to navigational queries. We investigated whether enterprise webs contain sufficient internal link information to adequately answer queries derived from the enterprise's site map or, alternatively, whether adding link evidence from the external Web can boost search effectiveness. Using 1266 navigational queries derived from Stanford University's A-Z site index, we found no difference between the quality of results returned by Stanford's Google appliance and those from an appropriately site-restricted search of the global Google service. Applying similar methodology to our own crawls of seven Australian organisations, we found that adding external link evidence made no significant difference to search effectiveness in five cases and a slight difference (in different directions) in the other two. We observed that external links to an organisation show very different patterns to internal links. Unlike enterprise web publishers, external web authors heavily favour directory default pages, particularly the organisation's home page and pages offering information or services likely to be useful on an ongoing basis. External links seldom reference the complex, parameterised URLs in common use in many organisations.