Personalizing Web Search Results Based on Subspace Projection

2014 ◽  
pp. 160-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingfei Li ◽  
Dawei Song ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Ji-Rong Wen ◽  
Zhicheng Dou
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Subspace Projection ◽  
Search Results

scholarly journals The Matter of Chance: Auditing Web Search Results Related to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections Across Six Search Engines

2021 ◽  
pp. 089443932110068
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Urman ◽  
Mykola Makhortykh ◽  
Roberto Ulloa
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Virtual Agents ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Presidential Primary ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Algorithmic Information

We examine how six search engines filter and rank information in relation to the queries on the U.S. 2020 presidential primary elections under the default—that is nonpersonalized—conditions. For that, we utilize an algorithmic auditing methodology that uses virtual agents to conduct large-scale analysis of algorithmic information curation in a controlled environment. Specifically, we look at the text search results for “us elections,” “donald trump,” “joe biden,” “bernie sanders” queries on Google, Baidu, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and Yandex, during the 2020 primaries. Our findings indicate substantial differences in the search results between search engines and multiple discrepancies within the results generated for different agents using the same search engine. It highlights that whether users see certain information is decided by chance due to the inherent randomization of search results. We also find that some search engines prioritize different categories of information sources with respect to specific candidates. These observations demonstrate that algorithmic curation of political information can create information inequalities between the search engine users even under nonpersonalized conditions. Such inequalities are particularly troubling considering that search results are highly trusted by the public and can shift the opinions of undecided voters as demonstrated by previous research.

Overlap Between Google and Bing Web Search Results!

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rakesh Agrawal ◽  
Behzad Golshan ◽  
Evangelos Papalexakis
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Search Results

Relationship and Causality between Cryptocurrencies, Commodities, Currencies, Indexes and Web Search Results During and Prior to Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Deni Memic ◽  
Selma Skaljic Memic ◽  
Mohamed Noor Saifuddin Mohamed Noor Saif Almehairi
Keyword(s):  
Web Search ◽  
Search Results

scholarly journals Techniques for Improving Web Search by  Understanding Queries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Wayne Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Web Page Clustering

<p>This thesis investigates the refinement of web search results with a special focus on the use of clustering and the role of queries. It presents a collection of new methods for evaluating clustering methods, performing clustering effectively, and for performing query refinement. The thesis identifies different types of query, the situations where refinement is necessary, and the factors affecting search difficulty. It then analyses hard searches and argues that many of them fail because users and search engines have different query models. The thesis identifies best practice for evaluating web search results and search refinement methods. It finds that none of the commonly used evaluation measures for clustering meet all of the properties of good evaluation measures. It then presents new quality and coverage measures that satisfy all the desired properties and that rank clusterings correctly in all web page clustering situations. The thesis argues that current web page clustering methods work well when different interpretations of the query have distinct vocabulary, but still have several limitations and often produce incomprehensible clusters. It then presents a new clustering method that uses the query to guide the construction of semantically meaningful clusters. The new clustering method significantly improves performance. Finally, the thesis explores how searches and queries are composed of different aspects and shows how to use aspects to reduce the distance between the query models of search engines and users. It then presents fully automatic methods that identify query aspects, identify underrepresented aspects, and predict query difficulty. Used in combination, these methods have many applications — the thesis describes methods for two of them. The first method improves the search results for hard queries with underrepresented aspects by automatically expanding the query using semantically orthogonal keywords related to the underrepresented aspects. The second method helps users refine hard ambiguous queries by identifying the different query interpretations using a clustering of a diverse set of refinements. Both methods significantly outperform existing methods.</p>

scholarly journals Techniques for Improving Web Search by  Understanding Queries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Wayne Crabtree
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Evaluation Measures ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Web Page Clustering

<p>This thesis investigates the refinement of web search results with a special focus on the use of clustering and the role of queries. It presents a collection of new methods for evaluating clustering methods, performing clustering effectively, and for performing query refinement. The thesis identifies different types of query, the situations where refinement is necessary, and the factors affecting search difficulty. It then analyses hard searches and argues that many of them fail because users and search engines have different query models. The thesis identifies best practice for evaluating web search results and search refinement methods. It finds that none of the commonly used evaluation measures for clustering meet all of the properties of good evaluation measures. It then presents new quality and coverage measures that satisfy all the desired properties and that rank clusterings correctly in all web page clustering situations. The thesis argues that current web page clustering methods work well when different interpretations of the query have distinct vocabulary, but still have several limitations and often produce incomprehensible clusters. It then presents a new clustering method that uses the query to guide the construction of semantically meaningful clusters. The new clustering method significantly improves performance. Finally, the thesis explores how searches and queries are composed of different aspects and shows how to use aspects to reduce the distance between the query models of search engines and users. It then presents fully automatic methods that identify query aspects, identify underrepresented aspects, and predict query difficulty. Used in combination, these methods have many applications — the thesis describes methods for two of them. The first method improves the search results for hard queries with underrepresented aspects by automatically expanding the query using semantically orthogonal keywords related to the underrepresented aspects. The second method helps users refine hard ambiguous queries by identifying the different query interpretations using a clustering of a diverse set of refinements. Both methods significantly outperform existing methods.</p>

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