Adding a visualization feature to web search engines: it's time.
It's widely recognized that all Web search engines today are almost identical in presentation layout and behavior. In fact, the same presentation approach has been applied to depicting search engine results pages (SERPs) since the first Web search engine launched in 1993. In this Visualization Viewpoints article, I propose to add a visualization feature to Web search engines and suggest that the new addition can improve search engines' performance and capabilities, which in turn lead to better Web search technology.
Wong
Pak Chung
PC
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. pak.wong@pnl.gov
D003196:Computer Graphics; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface