Search war: a game for improving web search

  • Authors:
  • Edith Law;Luis von Ahn;Tom Mitchell

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a competitive online game called Search War, which collects data that is useful for improving Web search. Specifically, as a by product of gameplay, players will provide, for a given web page, an evaluation of its relevance to a particular search query as well as its most salient purpose.