Paper Info
Title
The value of socially tagged urls for a search engine
Abstract
Social bookmarking has emerged as a growing source of human generated content on the web. In essence, bookmarking involves URLs and tags on them. In this paper, we perform a large scale study of the usefulness of bookmarked URLs from the top social bookmarking site Delicious. Instead of focusing on the dimension of tags, which has been covered in the previous work, we explore social bookmarking from the dimension of URLs. More specifically, we investigate the Delicious URLs and their content to quantify their value to a search engine. For their value in leading to good content, we show that the Delicious URLs have higher quality content and more external outlinks. For their value in satisfying users, we show that the Delicious URLs have more clicked URLs as well as get more clicks. We suggest that based on their value, the Delicious URLs should be used as another source of seed URLs for crawlers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1526709.1526929
WWW
Keywords
Field
DocType
external outlinks,delicious urls,top social bookmarking site,bookmarked urls,large scale study,social bookmarking,higher quality content,search engine,previous work,good content,seed urls,satisfiability
World Wide Web,Search engine,Information retrieval,Computer science,Semantic URL,Bookmarking
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.66
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Santanu Kolay1535.43
Ali Dasdan284973.11