Michael Chen
Department of Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA.
Marti A. Hearst
School of Information Management and Systems,
University of Californai, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600, USA.
We will demonstrate our alternative: a simple but novel approach to organizing and presenting the results of search over the pages of a large, heterogeneous web site. The main idea is to show, for each page matching the query, the path of web links that a user would follow from a root page to the search hit. The resulting interface, which we call Cha-Cha, is a hierarchical characterization of the search results that both shows the context in which the hits appear and educates the user about the structure of the web site.
SIGIR'98