Implicit Social Bookmarking to Improve Web Searches

Abstract

Social bookmarking is a popular way to share and publish bookmarks. The growth of the social bookmarking community is creating a parallel resource for web searches. In this paper we present an approach, called implicit social bookmarking, that creates a bridge between search in social bookmarks and classical web searches initiated in a search engine. Our approach allows a user to implicitly both contribute to a social bookmarking system and benefit from other user searches, therefore improving web searches. This paper details our approach, presents a prototype implementation alongside a first evaluation of the concept.