Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking

Summary: Proposes Page Quality ranking to dampen popularity bias in web search. Formal framework to define intrinsic page quality, compare with PageRank, and a practical estimator from a user model; experiments show gains for new/high-quality pages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3727
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.9618694e-05
Overall Rank: 6,144 | 57.85%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066220

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Junghoo Cho (University of California Los Angeles)
2. Sourashis Roy (University of California Los Angeles)
3. Robert E. Adams (University of California Los Angeles)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cho_sigmod05,
        title = {{Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking}},
        author = {Cho, Junghoo and Roy, Sourashis and Adams, Robert E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066220},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066220},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,977	Shuffling a Stacked Deck: The Case for Partially Randomized Ranking of Search Engine Results	2005	VLDB	5.7303405e-05
11,419	Equitable Top-k Results for Long Tail Data	2023	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,680	Evolution of Page Popularity under Random Web Graph Models	2006	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
285	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00022365284
301	Proximity Search in Databases	1998	VLDB	0.00022032878
2,211	Relational link-based ranking	2004	VLDB	8.9422791e-05
3,177	Computing PageRank in a Distributed Internet Search System	2004	VLDB	7.6633723e-05

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