Query-independent evidence in home page finding

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 286-313

  Upstill, Trystan ^a   Craswell, Nick ^b   Hawking, David ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citation and link analysis; Connectivity; Web information retrieval

Indexed keywords

CITATION AND LINK ANALYSIS; CONNECTIVITY; DOCUMENT CONTENTS; WEB INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 2442488148     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/858476.858479     Document Type: Article

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