(Web Search)shared: Social Aspects of a Collaborative, Community-Based Search Network

Abstract. 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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AH
• Authors: Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth
• Keywords: AH 2008, Collaborative Web Search, Internet Technology, Social Search Network, Web Search