Mining Search Engine Query Logs via Suggestion Sampling
Summary: Black-box Monte Carlo algorithms sample hidden auto-completion databases through public suggestion APIs, either uniformly or popularity-proportionally. Enables unbiased mining of query logs—keyword popularity, commercial-query prevalence, and negative-content exposure—without direct database access. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Ziv Bar-Yossef (Google; Technion)
- 2. Maxim Gurevich (Technion)
BibTeX Citation
@article{baryossef_vldb08,
title = {{Mining Search Engine Query Logs via Suggestion Sampling}},
author = {Bar-Yossef, Ziv and Gurevich, Maxim},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '08},
pages = {54},
doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453868},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453868},
year = {2008}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,365 | Measure-driven Keyword-Query Expansion | 2009 | VLDB | 6.6337428e-05 |
| 8,065 | Mining a Search Engine’s Corpus: Efficient Yet Unbiased Sampling and Aggregate Estimation | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.3952009e-05 |
| 8,391 | Query Expansion Based on Clustered Results | 2011 | VLDB | 5.3411574e-05 |
| 8,833 | Unbiased Estimation of Size and Other Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases | 2010 | SIGMOD | 5.267646e-05 |
| 9,856 | Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web | 2012 | VLDB | 5.1185704e-05 |
| 9,857 | Attribute Domain Discovery for Hidden Web Databases | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.1185704e-05 |
| 12,576 | Rank Discovery From Web Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,675 | Randomized Generalization for Aggregate Suppression Over Hidden Web Databases | 2011 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 477 | Random Sampling from B+ trees | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00017632787 |
| 2,709 | Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties | 2004 | PODS | 8.1063128e-05 |
| 5,985 | A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.926154e-05 |
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