Shuffling a Stacked Deck: The Case for Partially Randomized Ranking of Search Engine Results
Summary: Partially randomized ranking for search results to give new pages a chance despite low initial popularity. Analytical and simulation studies of the exploration-exploitation tradeoff with an amortized quality objective show modest randomness improves long-run result quality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Sandeep Pandey (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 2. Sourashis Roy (University of California Los Angeles)
- 3. Junghoo Cho (University of California Los Angeles)
- 4. Christopher Olston (Carnegie Mellon University)
- 5. Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
BibTeX Citation
@article{pandey_vldb05,
title = {{Shuffling a Stacked Deck: The Case for Partially Randomized Ranking of Search Engine Results}},
author = {Pandey, Sandeep and Roy, Sourashis and Cho, Junghoo and Olston, Christopher and Chakrabarti, Soumen},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '05},
year = {2005}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 12,680 | Evolution of Page Popularity under Random Web Graph Models | 2006 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,144 | Page Quality: In Search of an Unbiased Web Ranking | 2005 | SIGMOD | 5.9618694e-05 |
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