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Exploiting Geographical Location Information of Web Pages (1999)
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| Venue: | In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB’99 |
| Citations: | 41 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Buyukkokten99exploitinggeographical,
author = {Orkut Buyukkokten and Junghoo Cho and Hector Garcia-molina and Luis Gravano and Narayanan SHivakumar},
title = {Exploiting Geographical Location Information of Web Pages},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB’99},
year = {1999},
pages = {91--96}
}
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Abstract
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apartment rentals are relevant primarily to web users in geographical proximity to these locations. In contrast, other information resources are relevant to a broader geographical community. For instance, an on-line newspaper may be relevant to users across the United States. Unfortunately, the geographical scope of web resources is largely ignored by web search engines. We make the case for identifying and exploiting the geographical location information of web sites so that web search engines can rank resources in a geographically sensitive fashion, in addition to using more traditional information-retrieval strategies. In this paper, we first consider how to compute the geographical location of web pages. Subsequently, we consider how to exploit such information in one specific "proof-of-concept" appl...
Keyphrases
web page geographical location information web search engine web resource apartment rental limited geographical community information resource sensitive fashion united state many information resource geographical scope on-line newspaper web site geographical location geographical proximity proof-of-concept appl geographical community traditional information-retrieval strategy
