Exploring Web Search Results Using Coordinated Views

Author

Hoeber, Orland ; Yang, Xue Dong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Regina Univ., Sask.

fYear

2006

fDate

4-4 July 2006

Firstpage

3

Lastpage

13

Abstract

Most Web search engines use a list-based representation of Web search results, promoting a sequential evaluation of the document surrogates. Commonly, these search engines only display ten document surrogates per page, limiting the users´ ability to explore the search results. We have developed two systems to support the visual exploration of Web search results: HotMap and Concept Highlighter. In both of these systems, the search results are provided at two levels of detail: an overview map that provides a compact and abstract representation of the top 100 documents returned by the underlying search engine; and a detail window that shows 20 to 25 documents at a time. In this paper, we discuss how these coordinated views support the visual exploration of Web search results

Keywords

Internet; search engines; Concept Highlighter; HotMap; Web search engine; coordinated view; list-based information representation; visual exploration; Computer displays; Computer science; Decision making; Frequency; Fuzzy sets; Search engines; Uniform resource locators; Web search;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, 2006. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

London, England

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2605-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMV.2006.8

Filename

1647703