Search tools through the glass: a story of clustering search results according to document attributes with a glance on the web

Structuring search results in information retrieval, especially when we have bulky results, helps IS users finding relevant results sooner. Due to the fact that clustering is a well known way of organizing search results this paper aims at mapping different clustering methods on different types of attributes, the last part of this paper deals with current situation of search technologies on the Web, testing if they have the potential of organizing the results according to previously defined attributes. The results of this minor study shows that although clustering search results is not something new on the Web and although most of the attributes are being indexed currently, the search engines do not take the whole advantage.