Navigating the Web with Query Tags

Abstract

We propose to integrate various pieces of information about a web page (search queries, social annotations, terms extracted from the pagetext) into a navigational menu. This menu displays an auxiliary set of tags (navigational tags) selected with the goal of helping user navigation. We propose a novel framework (navigational utility) for comparing different tag selection methods. We also investigate which source of tags is more suitable for our scenario and we conclude that tags extracted from search queries (query tags) are more appropriate.