Measuring personalization of Web search

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 527-537

  Hannak, Aniko ^a   Sapiezyński, Piotr ^b   Kakhki, Arash Molavi ^a   Krishnamurthy, Balachander ^c   Lazer, David ^a   Mislove, Alan ^a   Wilson, Christo ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Measurement; Personalization; Web search

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEASUREMENT; WEBSITES;

DAILY LIVES; INTEGRAL PART; IP ADDRESSS; PERSONALIZATIONS; SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SEARCH RESULTS; WEB SEARCHES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84893154542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2488388.2488435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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