@inproceedings{www2009186,
       booktitle = {18th International World Wide Web Conference},
           month = {April},
           title = {Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach},
          author = {Einat Amitay and David Carmel and Nadav Har'El and Shila Ofek-Koifman and Aya Soffer and Sivan Yogev and Nadav Golbandi},
            year = {2009},
           pages = {1211--1211},
             url = {http://www2009.eprints.org/186/},
        abstract = {We explore new ways of improving a search engine using data from Web 2.0 applications such as blogs and social bookmarks. This data contains entities such as documents, people and tags, and relationships between them. We propose a simple yet effective method, based on faceted search, that treats all entities in a uni?ed manner: returning all of them (documents, people and tags) on every search, and allowing all of them to be used as search terms. We describe an implementation of such a social search engine on the intranet of a large enterprise, and present large-scale experiments which verify the validity of our approach. }
}