I-SPY - Anonymous, Community-Based Personalization by Collaborative Meta-Search

Today’s Web search engines often fail to satisfy the needs of their users, in part because search engines do not respond well to the vague queries of many users. One potentially promising solution involves the introduction of context into the search process as a means of elaborating vague queries. In this paper we describe and evaluate a novel approach to using context in Web search that adapts a generic search engine for the needs of a specialist community of users. This collaborative search method enjoys significant performance benefits and avoids the privacy and security concerns that are commonly associated with related personalization research.

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