Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph

Summary: Introduces Simrank++ for query rewriting in sponsored search by extending SimRank with edge weights and evidence signals on a historical click graph. Shows these enhancements yield better query rewrites than vanilla Simrank on Yahoo! click data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h29e4235c5e5d9293
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00013935056
Overall Rank: 789 | 94.72%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453902

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Authors

1. Ioannis Antonellis (Stanford University)
2. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
3. Chi-Chao Chang (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{antonellis_vldb08,
        title = {{Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph}},
        author = {Antonellis, Ioannis and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Chang, Chi-Chao},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {408--419},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453902},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453902},
        year = {2008}
}

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1,407	Fast and Exact Top-k Search for Random Walk with Restart	2012	VLDB	0.00010736384
1,632	More is Simpler: Effectively and Efficiently Assessing Node-Pair Similarities Based on Hyperlinks	2014	VLDB	0.00010005875
1,796	BEAR: Block Elimination Approach for Random Walk with Restart on Large Graphs	2015	SIGMOD	9.6106766e-05
2,103	BePI: Fast and Memory-Efficient Method for Billion-Scale Random Walk with Restart	2017	SIGMOD	9.0280807e-05
2,358	Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Networks	2015	VLDB	8.5709995e-05
3,239	Distributed Algorithms on Exact Personalized PageRank	2017	SIGMOD	7.483901e-05
4,052	READS: A Random Walk Approach for Efficient and Accurate Dynamic SimRank	2017	VLDB	6.8147387e-05
4,168	Efficient Top-K SimRank-based Similarity Join	2015	VLDB	6.7538415e-05
4,320	An Efficient Similarity Search Framework for SimRank over Large Dynamic Graphs	2015	VLDB	6.6519974e-05
4,969	SLING: A Near-Optimal Index Structure for SimRank	2016	SIGMOD	6.3215234e-05
5,579	Scalable and Effective Bipartite Network Embedding	2022	SIGMOD	6.0611875e-05
5,959	Realtime Index-Free Single Source SimRank Processing on Web-Scale Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.916424e-05
6,593	Exact Single-Source SimRank Computation on Large Graphs	2020	SIGMOD	5.7227975e-05
6,776	An Experimental Evaluation of SimRank-based Similarity Search Algorithms	2017	VLDB	5.6690965e-05
8,006	ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs	2018	VLDB	5.3919311e-05
8,102	Billion-Scale Bipartite Graph Embedding: A Global-Local Induced Approach	2024	VLDB	5.3739121e-05
8,404	PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs	2019	SIGMOD	5.3230348e-05
10,296	BIRD: Efficient Approximation of Bidirectional Hidden Personalized PageRank	2024	VLDB	5.031399e-05
10,570	PJsim: Towards Precise and Scalable Graph Similarity	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,750	ClipSim: A GPU-friendly Parallel Framework for Single-Source SimRank with Accuracy Guarantee	2023	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,035	Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search	2021	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,365	NED: An Inter-Graph Node Metric Based On Edit Distance	2017	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,141	Latent Semantic Indexing: A Probabilistic Analysis	1998	PODS	0.000118131

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