What's going on in search engine rankings?

Yasuaki Yoshida; Takanori Ueda; Takashi Tashiro; Yu Hirate; Hayato Yamana

doi:10.1109/WAINA.2008.114

What's going on in search engine rankings?

Yasuaki Yoshida^*, Takanori Ueda, Takashi Tashiro, Yu Hirate, Hayato Yamana

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Many people use search engines every day to retrieve documents from the Web. Although the social influence of search engine rankings has become significant, ranking algorithms are not disclosed. In this paper, we have investigated three major search engine rankings by analyzing two kinds of data. One is the weekly ranking snapshots of top 250 Web pages we collected for almost one year by submitting 1,000 pre-selected queries; the other comprises back-linked Web pages gathered by our own Web crawling. As a result, we have confirmed that (1) several top 10 rankings are mutually similar, however, the following ranked Web pages are almost different, (2) ranking transitions have their own characteristics, and (3) each search engine's ranking has its own correlation with the number of back-linked Web pages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008
Pages	1199-1204
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WAINA.2008.114
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008 - Gino-wan, Okinawa, Japan Duration: 2008 Mar 25 → 2008 Mar 28

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA
ISSN (Print)	1550-445X

Conference

Conference	22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Gino-wan, Okinawa
Period	08/3/25 → 08/3/28

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Engineering(all)

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10.1109/WAINA.2008.114

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Yoshida, Y., Ueda, T., Tashiro, T., Hirate, Y., & Yamana, H. (2008). What's going on in search engine rankings? In Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008 (pp. 1199-1204). Article 4483082 (Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA). https://doi.org/10.1109/WAINA.2008.114

What's going on in search engine rankings? / Yoshida, Yasuaki; Ueda, Takanori; Tashiro, Takashi et al.
Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008. 2008. p. 1199-1204 4483082 (Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yoshida, Y, Ueda, T, Tashiro, T, Hirate, Y & Yamana, H 2008, What's going on in search engine rankings? in Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008., 4483082, Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA, pp. 1199-1204, 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008, Gino-wan, Okinawa, Japan, 08/3/25. https://doi.org/10.1109/WAINA.2008.114

Yoshida Y, Ueda T, Tashiro T, Hirate Y, Yamana H. What's going on in search engine rankings? In Proceedings - 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops/Symposia, AINA 2008. 2008. p. 1199-1204. 4483082. (Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA). doi: 10.1109/WAINA.2008.114

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