Location-Based Search Engines Tasks and Capabilities: A Comparative Study

Location-based web searching is one of the popular tasks expected from the search engines. A location-based query consists of a topic and a reference location. Unlike general web search, in location-based search it is expected to find and rank documents which are not only related to the query topic...

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Main Authors: Hossein Vakili Mofrad, Hamid R. Jamali, Xiaofang Zhou, Saeid Asadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Webology Center 2007-12-01
Series:Webology
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Online Access:http://www.webology.org/2007/v4n4/a48.html