The Past, Present and Future of Web Information Retrieval (Invited Tutorial)

Summary: Survey of web IR evolution from text-only retrieval to PageRank and richer page understanding for improved relevance. Advocates query-free search with a real-time TV-news→web matching demo, outlining system and retrieval challenges for proactive, context-aware search. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1306
Venue: PODS
Year: 2004
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,873 | 4.82%
DOI: 10.1145/1055558.1055566

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Authors

1. Monika Henzinger (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{henzinger_pods04,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '04},
        title = {{The Past, Present and Future of Web Information Retrieval (Invited Tutorial)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1055558.1055566},
        doi = {10.1145/1055558.1055566},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Henzinger, Monika},
        year = {2004}
}

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