Creating temporally dynamic web search snippets

Krysta M. Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Anagha Kulkarni
2012 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '12  
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing traditional queryfocused snippets with snippets that emphasize new page content for two query types: general and trending. Our results indicate that searchers prefer the inclusion of temporal information for trending queries but not for general queries, and that this is particularly valuable for pages that have not been recently crawled.
doi:10.1145/2348283.2348461 dblp:conf/sigir/SvoreTDK12 fatcat:2fx4ab6jivf35opx7u5wu5fina