Cluster Search Engine Results with Crowd Intelligence
Chun-Hsiung Tseng, Fu Yang, Yu Ping Tseng, Yi Chang · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2013
Most Web users today rely heavily on search engines to gather information. To achieve better search results, some algorithms such as PageRank have been developed. However, most Web search engines employ keyword-based search and thus have some natural weaknesses. Among these problems, a well-known one is that it is very difficult for search engines to infer semantics from user queries and returned results. Hence, despite of efforts of ranking search results, users may still have to navigate through a huge amount of Web pages to locate the desired resources. In this research, the researchers developed a clustering-based methodology to improve the performance of search engines. Instead of extracting features used for clustering from the returned documents, the proposed method extracts features from the delicious service, which is actually a tag provider service. By utilizing such information, the resulting system can benefit from crowd intelligence. The obtained information is then used for enhancing the performance of the ordinary k-means algorithm to achieve better clustering results.