Organizing user Search Histories
Internet userscontinuously make queries over web to obtain required information. They need information about various tasks and sub tasks for which they use search engines. Over a period of time they make plenty of related queries. Search engines save these queries and maintain user’s search histories. Users can view their search histories in chronological order. However, the search histories are not organized into related groups. In fact there is no organization made except the chronological order. Recently Hwang et al. studied the problem of organizing historical search information of users into groups dynamically. This automatic grouping of user search histories can help search engines also in various applications such as collaborative search, sessionization, query alterations, result ranking and query suggestions. They proposed various techniques to achieve this. In this paper we implemented those techniques practically using a prototype web application built in Java technologies. The experimental results revealed that the proposed application is useful to organize search histories.
