Sharing Bookmarks among Same Interest Persons
Mikihiko Mori, Seiji Yamada · 2000
We propose Bookmark-agent system that enables users to share information in each user’s bookmarks with others. This system is more effective in finding specific information that is a common interest of all the members in a group than existing search engines, such as Yahoo and AltaVista. When a user wants to find certain URLs, the Bookmark-agent will find them on behalf of the user. In addition to that, the Bookmark agent requests other Bookmark agents to search their own bookmarks. As a result, the user can obtain information that best matches his/her needs from the Bookmark-agent. Since users filter the selected information beforehand, it is possible for the Bookmark-agent to satisfy a users’ requests more precisely than existing search engines. After conducting experiments on six users, we have found that the Bookmark-agent system is a promising approach to share URLs in a small community.