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Supporting Entity Search: A Large-Scale Prototype Search Engine

Summary: Proposes entity search, a departure from document retrieval, locating data entities (phones, PDFs, dates) instead of pages. Demonstrates a 2TB-scale prototype over the Web (WISDM), validating scalable entity-centric search architecture. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3957
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
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Overall Rank
13,601 | 5.38%
DOI
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1,140 EntityRank: Searching Entities Directly and Holistically 2007 VLDB 0.00013720706
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1,734 Entity Search Engine: Towards Agile Best-Effort Information Integration over the Web 2007 CIDR 0.00010723542
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