Publication Type
Conference Paper
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
7-2008
Abstract
Blog/news search engines are very important channels to reach information about the real-time happenings. In this paper, we study the popular queries collected over one year period and compare their search results returned by a blog search engine (i.e., Technorati) and a news search engine (i.e., Google News). We observed that the numbers of hits returned by the two search engines for the same set of queries were highly correlated, suggesting that blogs often provide commentary to current events reported in news. As many popular queries are related to some events, we further observed a high cohesiveness among the returned search results for these queries.
Keywords
Blog, News, Search engine, Popular queries, Search results
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Digital Communications and Networking
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)
City or Country
Singapore
Citation
SUN, Aixin; HU, Meishan; and LIM, Ee Peng.
Searching blogs and news: A study on popular queries. (2008). 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/420
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Additional URL
http://www.cais.ntu.edu.sg/~axsun/paper/sun_sigir08p.pdf