TY  - CONF
ID  - www2009186
UR  - http://www2009.eprints.org/186/
A1  - Amitay, Einat
A1  - Carmel, David
A1  - Har'El, Nadav
A1  - Ofek-Koifman, Shila
A1  - Soffer, Aya
A1  - Yogev, Sivan
A1  - Golbandi, Nadav
Y1  - 2009/04//
N2  - 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. 
TI  - Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach
SP  - 1211
M2  - Madrid, Spain
AV  - public
EP  - 1211
T2  - 18th International World Wide Web Conference
ER  -