Harnessing trust in social search

  • Authors:
  • Peter Briggs;Barry Smyth

  • Affiliations:
  • Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The social Web emphasises the increased role of millions of users in the creation of a new type of online content, often expressed in the form of opinions or judgements. This has led to some novel approaches to information access that take advantage of user opinions and activities as a way to guide users as they browse or search for information. We describe a social search technique that harnesses the experiences of a network of searchers to generate result recommendations that can complement the search results that are returned by some standard Web search engine.