creators_name: Amitay, Einat creators_name: Carmel, David creators_name: Har'El, Nadav creators_name: Ofek-Koifman, Shila creators_name: Soffer, Aya creators_name: Yogev, Sivan creators_name: Golbandi, Nadav type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:14:23 lastmod: 2009-04-14 04:37:13 metadata_visibility: show title: Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach ispublished: pub full_text_status: public pres_type: poster 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 uniļ¬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. date: 2009-04 pagerange: 1211-1211 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: Amitay, Einat and Carmel, David and Har'El, Nadav and Ofek-Koifman, Shila and Soffer, Aya and Yogev, Sivan and Golbandi, Nadav (2009) Social Search and Discovery Using a Unified Approach. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain. document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/186/1/p1211.pdf