Search Result Interface Hongning Wang
Abstraction of search engine architecture User Ranker Indexer Doc Analyzer Index results Crawler Doc Representation Query Rep (Query) Evaluation Feedback Information Retrieval2 Indexed corpus Ranking procedure
Search interface Evolution of Google’s result interface – evolution/ evolution/ 6501: Information Retrieval3
Google’s 6501: Information Retrieval4
Bing’s 6501: Information Retrieval5
Yahoo’s 6501: Information Retrieval6
What are there A list of links to the search result page – Text summarization of the retrieved document Title + text snippet Search suggestions – Related search – Spelling correction – Query auto-completion Vertical search – Image, shopping, news Knowledge graph – As a result of NLP techniques It has been there since the search engine was born Simple Q&A 6501: Information Retrieval7
Query auto-completion 6501: Information Retrieval8
Direct answers Advanced version of “I’m feeling lucky” 6501: Information Retrieval9
Experimental features Search result feedback 6501: Information Retrieval10
Experimental features Collaborative ranking 6501: Information Retrieval11
Experimental features Social panel 6501: Information Retrieval12
Instant search 6501: Information Retrieval13
Carrot2’s folder display Organized results 6501: Information Retrieval14
Carrot2’s circle display 6501: Information Retrieval15
Carrot2’s foam tree display 6501: Information Retrieval16
BaiGoogledu 6501: Information Retrieval17 Meta search engine
PubMed 6501: Information Retrieval18
Considerations in result display Relevance – Order the results by relevance Diversity – Maximize the topical coverage of the displayed results Navigation – Help users easily explore the related search space Query suggestion Search by example 6501: Information Retrieval19
In Human-Computer Interaction – Eye/Mouse tracking study of interaction between users and search result page – Psychological study of user behaviors Facet categories, text summaries, colors, positions In Information Retrieval – Less attention has been put in this aspect in history – Attracting more and more research focus now Research progress 6501: Information Retrieval20
Search result display in mobile device Unique characteristics of mobile device – Small screen size, limited bandwidth, input, data- access and computation power – Multi-touch screen – Rich search context – Opportunities? 6501: Information Retrieval21
What you should know General considerations in search result display Challenges and opportunities in mobile device search result display 6501: Information Retrieval22