scholarly journals A Survey on Blockchain-Based Search Engines

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 7063
Author(s):  
Esmaeel Rezaee ◽  
Ali Mohammad Saghiri ◽  
Agostino Forestiero

With the increasing growth of different types of data, search engines have become an essential tool on the Internet. Every day, billions of queries are run through few search engines with several privacy violations and monopoly problems. The blockchain, as a trending technology applied in various fields, including banking, IoT, education, etc., can be a beneficial alternative. Blockchain-based search engines, unlike monopolistic ones, do not have centralized controls. With a blockchain-based search system, no company can lay claims to user’s data or access search history and other related information. All these data will be encrypted and stored on a blockchain. Valuing users’ searches and paying them in return is another advantage of a blockchain-based search engine. Additionally, in smart environments, as a trending research field, blockchain-based search engines can provide context-aware and privacy-preserved search results. According to our research, few efforts have been made to develop blockchain use, which include studies generally in the early stages and few white papers. To the best of our knowledge, no research article has been published in this regard thus far. In this paper, a survey on blockchain-based search engines is provided. Additionally, we state that the blockchain is an essential paradigm for the search ecosystem by describing the advantages.

Author(s):  
Novario Jaya Perdana

The accuracy of search result using search engine depends on the keywords that are used. Lack of the information provided on the keywords can lead to reduced accuracy of the search result. This means searching information on the internet is a hard work. In this research, a software has been built to create document keywords sequences. The software uses Google Latent Semantic Distance which can extract relevant information from the document. The information is expressed in the form of specific words sequences which could be used as keyword recommendations in search engines. The result shows that the implementation of the method for creating document keyword recommendation achieved high accuracy and could finds the most relevant information in the top search results.


Author(s):  
Chandran M ◽  
Ramani A. V

<p>The research work is about to test the quality of the website and to improve the quality by analyzing the hit counts, impressions, clicks, count through rates and average positions. This is accomplished using WRPA and SEO technique. The quality of the website mainly lies on the keywords which are present in it. The keywords can be of a search query which is typed by the users in the search engines and based on these keywords, the websites are displayed in the search results. This research work concentrates on bringing the particular websites to the first of the search result in the search engine. The website chosen for research is SRKV. The research work is carried out by creating an index array of Meta tags. This array will hold all the Meta tags. All the search keywords for the website from the users are stored in another array. The index array is matched and compared with the search keywords array. From this, hit to count is calculated for the analysis. Now the calculated hit count and the searched keywords will be analyzed to improve the performance of the website. The matched special keywords from the above comparison are included in the Meta tag to improve the performance of the website. Again all the Meta tags and newly specified keywords in the index array are matched with the SEO keywords. If this matches, then the matched keyword will be stored for improving the quality of the website. Metrics such as impressions, clicks, CTR, average positions are also measured along with the hit counts. The research is carried out under different types of browsers and different types of platforms. Queries about the website from different countries are also measured. In conclusion, if the number of the clicks for the website is more than the average number of clicks, then the quality of the website is good. This research helps in improvising the keywords using WRPA and SEO and thereby improves the quality of the website easily.</p>


Author(s):  
Martin Feuz ◽  
Matthew Fuller ◽  
Felix Stalder

Web search engines have become indispensable tools for finding information online effectively. As the range of information, context and users of Internet searches has grown, the relationship between the search query, search interest and user has become more tenuous. Not all users are seeking the same information, even if they use the same query term. Thus, the quality of search results has, at least potentially, been decreasing. Search engines have begun to respond to this problem by trying to personalise search in order to deliver more relevant results to the users. A query is now evaluated in the context of a user’s search history and other data compiled into a personal profile and associated with statistical groups. This, at least, is the promise stated by the search engines themselves. This paper tries to assess the current reality of the personalisation of search results. We analyse the mechanisms of personalisation in the case of Google web search by empirically testing three commonly held assumptions about what personalisation does. To do this, we developed new digital methods which are explained here. The findings suggest that Google personal search does not fully provide the much-touted benefits for its search users. More likely, it seems to serve the interest of advertisers in providing more relevant audiences to them.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Ismail Majid

Abstrak Sistem Pencarian merupakan aplikasi penting diterapkan pada sebuah media informasi online, namun sejak hadirnya mesin pencari seperti Google orang lebih suka menggunakan alat ini untuk menemukan informasi. Karena metode pencarian yang digunakan terbukti keandalannya. Apakah kita mampu seperti itu? Penelitian ini membuktikan bahwa dengan menerapkan metode Google Custom Search API, kita dapat membangun sistem pencarian layaknya seperti mesin pencari Google, hasil pengujian menunjukkan hasil pencarian yang ditampilkan sangat relevan dan rata-rata berada pada peringkat pertama. Keuntungan lainnya metode ini dilengkapi koreksi ejaan salah untuk menyempurnakan kata kunci sebenarnya.   Abstract Search system is an important application applied to an online information media, but since the presence of search engines like Google, people prefer to use this tool to find information. Because the search method used is proven to be reliable. Are we able to be like that? This research proves that by implementing the Google Custom Search API method, we can build a search system like Google's search engine, the test results show that the search results displayed are very relevant and on average are ranked first. Another advantage of this method is that it includes incorrect spelling corrections to perfect the actual keywords.


Author(s):  
Rotimi-Williams Bello ◽  
Firstman Noah Otobo

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique which helps search engines to find and rank one site over another in response to a search query. SEO thus helps site owners to get traffic from search engines. Although the basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. Choosing the right keywords to optimize for is thus the first and most crucial step to a successful SEO campaign. In the context of SEO, keyword density can be used as a factor in determining whether a webpage is relevant to a specified keyword or keyword phrase. SEO is known for its contribution as a process that affects the online visibility of a website or a webpage in a web search engine's results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine's users; these visitors can then be converted into customers. It is the objective of this paper to re-present black hat SEO technique as an unprofessional but profitable method of converting website users to customers. Having studied and understood white hat SEO, black hat SEO, gray hat SEO, crawling, indexing, processing and retrieving methods used by search engines as a web software program or web based script to search for documents and files for keywords over the internet to return the list of results containing those keywords; it would be seen that proper application of SEO gives website a better user experience, SEO helps build brand awareness through high rankings, SEO helps circumvent competition, and SEO gives room for high increased return on investment.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ilham Verardi Pradana

Thanks to the existence of Search engines, all of informations and datas could be easily found in the internet, one of the search engine that users use the most is Google. Google still be the most popular search engine to provide any informations available on the internet. The search result that Google provide, doesn't always give the result we wanted. Google just displayed the results based on the keyword we type. So sometimes, they show us the negative contents on the internet, such as pornography, pornsites, and many more that seems to be related to the keyword, whether the title or the other that makes the result going that way. In this paper, we will implement the "DNS SEHAT" to pass along client's request queries so the Google search engine on the client's side will provide more relevant search results without any negative contents.


Author(s):  
Sara Paiva ◽  
Manuel Ramos-Cabrer ◽  
Alberto Gil-Solla

Semantic search has been rapidly growing as a way to improve search results. The meaning of the input expression has revealed to produce better results than the traditional keyword appearance. Regarding search engines, there are currently several proposals but all of them are already implemented to a specific goal. We find important to develop a generic semantic search system so it rapidly be adapted to any system and domain that has search needs. This work introduces GSSP, a generic semantic search platform proposal. We present the platform and the several steps that need to be followed in order for the platform to be used. We also provide the ongoing work that is being done to apply GSSP to a Quality Management System.


2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Stacey

The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 provides people with criminal records protection from discrimination once their criminal record becomes ‘spent’. In this article, I highlight how media reports are increasingly available online and often mean spent convictions continue to be accessible to employers and others. However, I also look at a landmark case in 2014 that established a ‘right to be forgotten’, which enables people to ask for search results to be delisted from internet search engines. I examine to what extent this helps people with convictions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Diki Arisandi ◽  
Sukri Sukri ◽  
Salamun Salamun ◽  
Roni Salambue

Access to information from the internet is become the thing that is needed by almost all society, and also the student of SMK N II Taluk Kuantan. In this community service, the material that has been given is about how the search results obtained to be more effective by using power searching. Power searching delivered to students of SMK N II Taluk Kuantan is by inserting mathematical symbols on the keywords entered into the search engine on the internet. In addition, the material also discussed about more specific search by combining mathematical symbols, host names and file types to search. The method In this community service was giving the material and demo about how the implementation of power searching on search engines. After this activity is implemented, the community service team evaluates the material that has been given before. The result was the students in SMK N II Taluk Kuantan can implement power searching well.\  


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