Component search engine using tree-view interface for tourist blogs

Abstract

The existing search engines return the whole web pages as the search results, which make user spend extra time to read the useless information before finding the information they really want. We propose a novel search engine model called “Component Search Engine”, which can return the contents satisfying user's query rather than the whole pages. For achieving the purpose, we adopt a Tree-View interface to display the results. Through usability study, we determinate that Component Search Engine using Tree-View interface can improve user's searching experience and efficiency.