Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places

Summary: Ranks hyper-local points of interest using directions-query logs as scalable, implicit user-interest signals rather than reviews. Introduces distance/time-aware scoring and indexing for location-specific ranking, validated on large real-world logs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hc9480e78e432e5bc
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 5.1038322e-05
Overall Rank: 9,972 | 32.96%
DOI: 10.14778/1952376.1952379

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Petros Venetis (Stanford University)
2. Hector Gonzalez (Google)
3. Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)
4. Alon Halevy (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@article{venetis_vldb11,
        title = {{Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places}},
        author = {Venetis, Petros and Gonzalez, Hector and Jensen, Christian S. and Halevy, Alon},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {5},
        pages = {290--301},
        doi = {10.14778/1952376.1952379},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1952376.1952379},
        year = {2011}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,553	Mobility and Social Networking: A Data Management Perspective	2013	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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.

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5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010679641
1,230	Efficient Query Processing in Geographic Web Search Engines	2006	SIGMOD	0.00011412036
6,562	Mining Significant Semantic Locations From GPS Data	2010	VLDB	5.7477961e-05

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