Personalisation of eSearch Services – Concepts, Techniques, and Market Overview

The importance of information in today’s society is still growing and information search has become an essential task in both the workplace and in private life. eSearch services provide access to the abundance of information available on the Internet by means of search engine technology. However, conventional search engines have certain limitations in dealing with the typical information overload problems. With the application of personalisation techniques search engine providers aim at moderating some of the problems by providing users with information access individualised to their needs. The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, techniques for personalisation of eSearch services are introduced. Secondly, the results of an empirical study of the market for eSearch services are presented. Typical examples illustrate eSearch personalisation in practice, and the diffusion of techniques and implications for further research in the domain are discussed

IOS Press Collaborative Filtering Supporting Web Site Navigation

Abstract. The proliferation of information available on the world wide web and the new emerging technologies that have reduced the barriers in organizing and publishing documents, have made the support for navigation and personalization of web sites an appealing and promising task for the AI community. Making the process of retrieving relevant documents easier is one of the most challenging activities in the design of modern sites and goes beyond any particular domain. This paper proposes a new technique for Web navigation based on current algorithms used in Recommendation Systems. Our approach identifies really relevant documents adopting methodologies similar to those successfully used in current search engines. The effectiveness and the validity of our technique have been shown by several experiments