A Question of Relevancy - Search engine users are typically most interested in the items returned on the first page of the search results. It’s not often that users dig down into the ninth or tenth pages, because it takes too long and those results are simply not as relevant.
Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGIR - The SIGIR Best Paper Award was given to Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo! intern), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo! Labs) for "Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection".
