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  2. Ranking (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Ranking of query is one of the fundamental problems in information retrieval (IR), [1] the scientific/engineering discipline behind search engines. [2] Given a query q and a collection D of documents that match the query, the problem is to rank, that is, sort, the documents in D according to some criterion so that the "best" results appear early in the result list displayed to the user.

  3. Discounted cumulative gain - Wikipedia

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    Cumulative Gain is the sum of the graded relevance values of all results in a search result list. CG does not take into account the rank (position) of a result in the result list. The CG at a particular rank position is defined as: = = Where is the graded relevance of the result at position . The value computed with the CG function is ...

  4. Learning to rank - Wikipedia

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    Recently they have also sponsored a machine-learned ranking competition "Internet Mathematics 2009" [56] based on their own search engine's production data. Yahoo has announced a similar competition in 2010. [57] As of 2008, Google's Peter Norvig denied that their search engine exclusively relies on machine-learned ranking. [58]

  5. TrustRank - Wikipedia

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    Today, this algorithm is a part of major web search engines like Yahoo! and Google. [2] One of the most important factors that help web search engine determine the quality of a web page when returning results are backlinks. Search engines take a number and quality of backlinks into consideration when assigning a place to a certain web page in ...

  6. Evaluation measures (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation of IR systems is central to the success of any search engine including internet search, website search, databases and library catalogues. Evaluations measures are used in studies of information behaviour, usability testing, business costs and efficiency assessments.

  7. Okapi BM25 - Wikipedia

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    In information retrieval, Okapi BM25 (BM is an abbreviation of best matching) is a ranking function used by search engines to estimate the relevance of documents to a given search query. It is based on the probabilistic retrieval framework developed in the 1970s and 1980s by Stephen E. Robertson , Karen Spärck Jones , and others.

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    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.

  9. Probabilistic relevance model - Wikipedia

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    The probabilistic relevance model [1] [2] was devised by Stephen E. Robertson and Karen Spärck Jones as a framework for probabilistic models to come. It is a formalism of information retrieval useful to derive ranking functions used by search engines and web search engines in order to rank matching documents according to their relevance to a given search query.