Title
The Generalized Web Surfer
Abstract
Dierent models have been proposed for improving the results of Web search by taking into account the link structure of the Web. The PageRank algorithm models the behavior of a random surfer alternating between random jumps to new pages and following out links with equal probability. We propose to improve on PageRank by using an intelligent surfer that combines link structure and content to decide on its next transition. The intelligent surfer is guided by the textual authority of the web page. The textual authority gives a non-topical estimate of the intrinsic quality of a web page, and when combined with the link-based social authority gives a more complete and robust estimate of the document authoritativeness. Experiments on a number of queries indicate that our algorithm significantly outperforms PageRank algorithms in the human-rated quality of the pages returned while retaining the eciency and topic-independence characteristics of PageRank.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2004
RIAO
robust estimator,web pages
Field
DocType
Citations 
Static web page,Web search engine,Data mining,PageRank,HITS algorithm,Information retrieval,Web page,Computer science,Pagerank algorithm,Backlink
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ayman Farahat124418.07
Francine Chen21218153.96