Using an interactive interface to support Web search for improving user experience

With rapidly developing of the Internet, the current Web search engines are lack of interactivity for advanced users, thus the user experience cannot be satisfied. Exactly, in most of Web search engines, they only return a large number of search result pages, or suggest several correlative words according to their large-scale searching histories at the same time. For instance, Google, Yahoo! and MSN, they are the most popular and well-known search engines in the world. However, they are not enough for the advanced users who require user experience, much more correlative words, or interactive operations applied to returned results such as re-ranking and zooming. To focus on this idea of interactivity, we proposed and implemented an interactive interface to improve user experience for supporting Web search. It is a nice interface supporting dynamically changing re-ranking, related word zooming, and related word emphasizing and deemphasizing. It has been served as online search service recently. Our experimental evaluation confirms its convenience and good online performance.