Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples: Integrating Social with Search

Summary: Integrates social networks with search in Confucius, a large-scale Q&A service deployed in 21 countries and four languages. Describes six data-mining subroutines, their goals and algorithms, and scaling techniques for mining massive data to improve service quality. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2e8486414423c5cc
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.2905577e-05
Overall Rank: 8,713 | 41.42%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920965

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Authors

1. Xiance Si (Google)
2. Edward Y. Chang (Google)
3. Zoltán Gyöngyi (Google)
4. Maosong Sun (Tsinghua University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{si_vldb10,
        title = {{Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples: Integrating Social with Search}},
        author = {Si, Xiance and Chang, Edward Y. and Gyöngyi, Zoltán and Sun, Maosong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1505--1516},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920965},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920965},
        year = {2010}
}

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12,037	Towards an Efficient Weighted Random Walk Domination	2021	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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