Exploitation and use of social annotations in information search

Today, with the strong growth of the internet, the search service has been developed rapidly, support web users to easily search for their information. However, with the explosion of information is increasingly enormous, how to return search results satisfy the user remains a difficult problem. Currently, many web-based bookmark systems (such as delicous.com) allows users to easily share and organize their favorite web pages online by using social annotations. The goals of this paper are: 1) exploiting social annotations from delicous.com; 2) using the similarity measure (Social Similarity Ranking) and measure the popularity of the web page (SocialPageRank), build search engine to assist users to search quickly and efficiently. Preliminary experimental results show that the social annotations based search results are very positive.