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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Making Mainstream Web Search Engines More Collaborative
Author : Barry Smyth
Published in: Web Information Systems and Technologies
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Web search engines are perhaps the
killer app
of the modern internet age by providing users with near instant access to the world’s information. The success of modern web search engines is due in large part to the ability to handle web-scale information retrieval and also by the sophistication of their algorithmic ranking systems, which combine a variety of measures in order to determine page relevance when it comes to a specific search query. And by and large the heart of web search has remained stable over the past 10 years. However, today researchers are exploring a new approach to supporting web search, once the complements algorithmic ranking techniques by harnessing social signals and supporting a more collaborative view of web search. In this paper we motivate and review recent work in this line of research, including an in-depth case-study of the HeyStaks collaborative search platform.