(Web Search)shared: Social Aspects of a Collaborative, Community-Based Search Network
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 28 July 2008Open access
Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth
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The results of a recent live-user trial are presented which demonstrates how CWS elicits high levels of participation and how the search activities of a community of related users form a type of social search network.
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Collaborative Web search (CWS) is a community-based approach to Web search that supports the sharing of past result selections among a group of related searchers so as to personalize result-lists to reflect the preferences of the community as a whole. In this paper, we present the results of a recent live-user trial which demonstrates how CWS elicits high levels of participation and how the search activities of a community of related users form a type of social search network.
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