Identifying Implicit Trackback in Weblogs and Its Application on Weblog Search
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Yen, Sheng-Chuan
DOI
en-US
Abstract
Recently, the easy-to-use user interface of weblog (blog) makes more and more people begin to share daily lives, opinions and feelings about things. According to the report from Technorati, a famous blog search engine, the number of blogs reached 70 million, and about 1.4 blogs are created every second of every day. Blog is a popular research topic now. Researches on blog search also attract many researchers’ attentions.
“What do people want to search in blogosphere?” This question motivates us. In blog search, users are interested not only in professional pages, but also in general articles which containing personal opinions and perspectives. As we investigate the blogosphere, we discovered that many blog posts are full of trackback contents. By trackback contents, we mean that the contents of blog posts are not written by bloggers. These contents are usually copies from new websites or official websites. We call this action as implicit trackback, which are trackbacks without explicit links to the referred entries and that do not send any acknowledgement to the original site.
In this thesis, we analyze and discuss implicit trackbacks and propose several efficient approaches to detect them. Then, we implement a blog recommendation system for blog search based on the features of implicit trackbacks.
Finally, we conclude with some unsolved but quite interesting problems to study in the future.
Subjects
部落格
隱含式轉錄
部落格搜尋
weblog
implicit trackback
weblog search
Type
thesis