(Query) History Teaches Everything, Including the Future

Author

Silvestri, Fabrizio ; Baraglia, Ranieri ; Lucchese, Claudio ; Orlando, Salvatore ; Perego, Raffaele

Author_Institution

ISTI-CNR, Pisa

fYear

2008

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

22

Abstract

"History teaches everything, including the future", wrote Alphonse de Lamartine in the nineteen century. Even if history cannot be really considered a predictive science, historical information can successfully be used in many fields. This paper deals with Web search engines and their query logs, which contain historical information about past usage of such systems. We will present some of the most interesting results obtained in this field by the High Performance Computing Lab in Pisa in collaboration with Research Labs worldwide. The techniques reviewed are mainly focused on enhancing the efficiency of large-scale distributed search systems.

Keywords

Internet; groupware; query processing; search engines; Web search engines; collaboration; historical information; large-scale distributed search systems; predictive science; query logs; Acceleration; Aggregates; Collaboration; Ecosystems; High performance computing; History; Search engines; Statistics; Web search; Caching in Search Engines; Distribute IR; Document Partitioning; Multimedia Query Caching; Query Log; Query Mining; Query Vector Model; Term Partitioning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Conference, 2008. LA-WEB '08., Latin American

Conference_Location

Espfrito Santo

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3397-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3397-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LA-WEB.2008.21

Filename

4756157