Leveraging Focused Locations For Web Search

In this paper, we propose to identify and use focused locations to improve Web search. Focused locations refer to the most important ones in a Web page, and the key issue is how to determine them and apply in Web search process. We present a location-assisted search tool called LAST (Location-Assisted Search Tool) to demonstrate the extraction and use of focused locations in Web search. After an overview of the general features of LAST, we discuss the architecture and implementation of LAST. And finally, a case study of LAST's demonstration is presented.