Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples: Integrating Social with Search

Summary: Integrates social networks with search in Confucius, a large-scale Q&A service deployed in 21 countries and four languages. Describes six data-mining subroutines, their goals and algorithms, and scaling techniques for mining massive data to improve service quality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10033
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 4.5435639e-05
Overall Rank: 8,310 | 42.19%
DOI: -

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