Evolution of web search results within years

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2011-01-01
We provide a first large-scale analysis of the evolution of query results obtained from a real search engine at two distant points in time, namely, in 2007 and 2010, for a set of 630,000 real queries.

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İ. S. Altıngövde and Ö. Ulusoy, “Evolution of web search results within years,” 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42272.