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)
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