In this paper, we sketch a method for clustering e-commerce search engines by the type of products/services they sell. This method utilizes the special features of interface pages of such search engines. We also provide an analysis of different types of ESE interface pages. Categories & Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval ? Clustering; H.3.5: Online Information Services ? Commercial Services, Web-based Services. General Terms Algorithms, Performance, Design, Experimentation. Keywords Search engine categorization, document clustering
Qian Peng, Weiyi Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu