International Journal of Information Studies, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)

Improving User’s Web Search Experience by Interactive Re-ranking and Zooming

Jianquan Liu, Hanxiong Chen, Kazutaka Furuse, Nobuo Ohbo


Abstract


The well-known search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN, are not enough for the advanced users who require
user experience, for instance, 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 interactive interfaces to improve user experience
for supporting Web search. They are nice interfaces 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 evaluations confirm
their convenience and good online performance.