An analysis of factors used in search engine ranking

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web, AIRWeb 2005 - Held in Conjunction with the 14th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 48-57

  Bifet, Albert ^a   Castillo, Carlos ^b   Chirita, Paul Alexandru ^c   Weber, Ingmar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; NON-LINEAR METHODS; SCORING FUNCTIONS; SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84876931971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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