Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 19-26

  Agichtein, Eugene ^a   Brill, Eric ^a   Dumais, Susan ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit relevance feedback; Web search; Web search ranking

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; WEBSITES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

IMPLICIT RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; USER BEHAVIOR INFORMATION; WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCH RANKING;

ONLINE SEARCHING; SEARCH ENGINES;

IMPLICIT RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; RANKING PROCESS; USER BEHAVIOR INFORMATION; WEB SEARCH RANKING;

EID: 33750341480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1148170.1148177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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