title: Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach
creator: Amitay, Einat
creator: Carmel, David
creator: Har'El, Nadav
creator: Ofek-Koifman, Shila
creator: Soffer, Aya
creator: Yogev, Sivan
creator: Golbandi, Nadav
description: 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 unified 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. 
date: 2009-04
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/186/1/p1211.pdf
identifier: Amitay, Einat <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Amitay=3AEinat=3A=3A.html> and Carmel, David <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Carmel=3ADavid=3A=3A.html> and Har'El, Nadav <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Har=27El=3ANadav=3A=3A.html> and Ofek-Koifman, Shila <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Ofek-Koifman=3AShila=3A=3A.html> and Soffer, Aya <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Soffer=3AAya=3A=3A.html> and Yogev, Sivan <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Yogev=3ASivan=3A=3A.html> and Golbandi, Nadav <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Golbandi=3ANadav=3A=3A.html> (2009) Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/186/