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2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A face(book) in the crowd: social Searching vs. social browsing
Large numbers of college students have become avid Facebook users in a short period of time. In this paper, we explore whether these students are using Facebook to find new people...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine
We present Aardvark, a social search engine. With Aardvark, users ask a question, either by instant message, email, web input, text message, or voice. Aardvark then routes the que...
Damon Horowitz, Sepandar D. Kamvar
ICC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Modeling Random Walk Search Algorithms in Unstructured P2P Networks with Social Information
—Random walk (RW) has been widely used as a strategy for searching in peer-to-peer networks. The boom of social network applications introduces new impact to the classical algori...
Jing Xie, King-Shan Lui
AH
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
(Web Search)shared: Social Aspects of a Collaborative, Community-Based Search Network
Abstract. Collaborative Web search (CWS) is a community-based approach to Web search that supports the sharing of past result selections among a group of related searchers so as to...
Maurice Coyle, Barry Smyth