tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post8739976806304006888..comments2024-01-15T13:17:33.771-08:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Personalization, intent, and interestGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-83934496489824891962007-03-18T21:07:00.000-07:002007-03-18T21:07:00.000-07:00Thanks, Udit, for the reference to that paper. I'...Thanks, Udit, for the reference to that paper. I'll take a look.Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-21043880722080146982007-03-18T15:03:00.000-07:002007-03-18T15:03:00.000-07:00Generally when a user doesn't find the relevant do...Generally when a user doesn't find the relevant documents in one go, he tries to change the search query terms. Learning from these reformulated query terms one might re-rank the next series of search results in a different manner. May be something on these lines www.cs.cornell.edu/~filip/papers/Radlinski05QueryChains.pdf<BR/><BR/>UditRomramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09818521394278809071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-46997035648140642522007-03-18T00:49:00.000-07:002007-03-18T00:49:00.000-07:00Greg,How would you define search iteration?There a...Greg,<BR/><BR/>How would you define search iteration?<BR/><BR/>There are a couple of points I can think of that matches this:<BR/><BR/>1) Searches that not a single item was clicked in.<BR/><BR/>2) Searches that are similar to other searches (containing X% of the same terms - perhaps even in the same order). This might help to show that the user is trying to refine the search by adding or removing words.<BR/><BR/>3) Searches that were done in the same session (we still need to define what a session is in that context) or in a relatively small time (we still need to define that time)<BR/><BR/>I wonder if Google and other search engines considers searches that were made by the same user in a relatively small amount of time as a search iteration.<BR/><BR/>It would be good to also define a profile for users because savvy users will probably open up multiple tabs/windows and search for multiple items at the same time (I know there are various ways of distinguishing between them).<BR/><BR/>Un-savvy users that search one thing at a time are different from the search savvy people. That can also help and it's really easy to find them. Just look at the similarity of different search terms over a relatively small time span.Eran Sandlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03337404195306320822noreply@blogger.com