Title :
Exploring Web Search Results Using Coordinated Views
Author :
Hoeber, Orland ; Yang, Xue Dong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Regina Univ., Sask.
Abstract :
Most Web search engines use a list-based representation of Web search results, promoting a sequential evaluation of the document surrogates. Commonly, these search engines only display ten document surrogates per page, limiting the users´ ability to explore the search results. We have developed two systems to support the visual exploration of Web search results: HotMap and Concept Highlighter. In both of these systems, the search results are provided at two levels of detail: an overview map that provides a compact and abstract representation of the top 100 documents returned by the underlying search engine; and a detail window that shows 20 to 25 documents at a time. In this paper, we discuss how these coordinated views support the visual exploration of Web search results
Keywords :
Internet; search engines; Concept Highlighter; HotMap; Web search engine; coordinated view; list-based information representation; visual exploration; Computer displays; Computer science; Decision making; Frequency; Fuzzy sets; Search engines; Uniform resource locators; Web search;
Conference_Titel :
Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization, 2006. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London, England
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2605-5
