Characterizing, predicting, and handling web search queries that match very few or no results

Erdem Sarigil, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Rifat Ozcan, Özgür Ulusoy

Abstract: A non-negligible fraction of user queries end up with very few or even no matching results in leading commercial web search engines. In this work, we provide a detailed characterization of such queri...