Social Bookmarking helps Search

In the previous post, we mentioned that Intranets are generally lack of hyperlink network, compared to the Internet. The user collaboration of tagging good resources in the intranets will result in a hyperlink structure with keywords highly specific to the enterprise and URLs highly relevant to a specific topic. When an intranet search engine sees this structure, relevant documents can be associated with right keywords in its inverted index. A social bookmarking system plays an important role in helping search engines to find relevant data for users’ queries.

We started a new section about the Social Bookmarking and will illustrate the steps of extending a WSS site to be a social bookmarking site. Furthermore, we’d like to show how to set the social bookmarking site as the Authorative site for the MOSS 2007’s search engine in the intranet to improve relevance.

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