Personal approach for mobile search: A review

Abstract

Web service is a popular standard to publish services for users. However, diversified users need to access web service according to their particular preferences. Mobile search is quite different from standard PC-based web search in a number of ways: (a) the user interfaces and I/O are limited by screen real state, (b) key pads are tiny and inconvenient for use, (c) limited bandwidth and (d) costly connection fees. This review paper focuses on the personalization strategies which explicitly and implicitly infer user search context at individual user level. The paper also focuses on an architecture which collects user information (at mobile device and carrier network) and derives user intention in given situations.