Whose relevance? Web search engines as multisided relevance machines
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DOI: 10.1002/asi.24570
Abstract: This opinion piece takes Google's response to the so‐called COVID‐19 infodemic, as a starting point to argue for the need to consider societal relevance as a complement to other types of relevance. The authors maintain… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; information science; relevance; whose relevance ... See more keywords
A Novel Quranic Search Engine Using an Ontology-Based Semantic Indexing
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DOI: 10.1007/s13369-020-05082-5
Abstract: Quran is the most significant religious document in the Arabic language in Islamic law. Several Quranic search engines have been designed and widely used for the past two decades. However, these search engines have certain… read more here.
Keywords: quranic search; search; search engines; ontology ... See more keywords
Opinion dynamics via search engines (and other algorithmic gatekeepers)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104188
Abstract: Ranking algorithms are the information gatekeepers of the Internet era. We develop a stylized framework to study the effects of ranking algorithms on opinion dynamics. We consider rankings that depend on popularity and on personalization.… read more here.
Keywords: via search; opinion dynamics; ranking algorithms; search engines ... See more keywords
The Random Neural Network in a neurocomputing application for Web search
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2017.08.075
Abstract: Abstract Web users are not assured that the results provided by Web search engines or recommender systems are either exhaustive, or even the most relevant to their search needs. Businesses that provide services through the… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; web search; search; random neural ... See more keywords
Assessment and Comparison of Database Search Engines for Peptidomic Applications.
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.2c00307
Abstract: Protein database search engines are an integral component of mass spectrometry-based peptidomic analyses. Given the unique computational challenges of peptidomics, many factors must be taken into consideration when optimizing search engine selection, as each platform… read more here.
Keywords: database search; search engine; search engines; search ... See more keywords
A Virtue Epistemology of the Internet: Search Engines, Intellectual Virtues and Education
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DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2017.1383530
Abstract: Abstract This paper applies a virtue epistemology approach to using the Internet, as to improve our information-seeking behaviours. Virtue epistemology focusses on the cognitive character of agents and is less concerned with the nature of… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; intellectual virtues; epistemology internet; epistemology ... See more keywords
The Opioid-Overdose Crisis and Fentanyl: The Role of Online Information Seeking via Internet Search Engines
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DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1748820
Abstract: ABSTRACT Opioid abuse is a severe public health threat. Recent evidence points to a disturbing increase in the illicit use of fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid, with abuse often involving illicitly produced opioids mixed with… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; search; internet search; online ... See more keywords
Thumbnail images: uncertainties, infrastructures and search engines
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DOI: 10.1080/14626268.2017.1375961
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article argues that thumbnail images are infrastructural images that raise issues of uncertainty in two distinct, but interrelated, areas: a legal question of how to define, understand and govern visual information infrastructures, in… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; uncertainties infrastructures; thumbnail images; inc ... See more keywords
An evaluation of two commercial deep learning-based information retrieval systems for COVID-19 literature
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DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa271
Abstract: Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a tremendous need for access to the latest scientific information, leading to both corpora for COVID-19 literature and search engines to query such data. While most search engine… read more here.
Keywords: search engines; information; search; covid literature ... See more keywords
An NVM SSD-Based High Performance Query Processing Framework for Search Engines
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DOI: 10.1109/tkde.2022.3160557
Abstract: Commercial search engines generally maintain hundreds of thousands of machines equipped with large sized DRAM in order to process huge volume of user queries with fast responsiveness, which incurs high hardware cost since DRAM is… read more here.
Keywords: query processing; nvm ssd; search engines; query ... See more keywords
Memory, counter-memory and denialism: How search engines circulate information about the Holodomor-related memory wars
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DOI: 10.1177/17506980221133732
Abstract: Search engines, such as Google or Yandex, shape social reality by informing their users about current and historical phenomena. However, there is little research on how search engines deal with contested memories, which are subjected… read more here.
Keywords: memory wars; search engines; engines circulate; holodomor ... See more keywords