About the Project

GiveALink is a social bookmarking site where people can donate their bookmarks to the Web community and to science. As an ongoing academic research project, our goal is to analyze bookmark files to build new Web mining techniques including new ways to search, recommend, personalize, and visualize the Web.

We do not use page content nor links from submitted Web pages. Instead we use the implicit structure in individual collections of tagged bookmarks and collaborative filtering across users to measure semantic similarity of pages. Simply put, if many users bookmark two pages and put them in the same folder or give them the same label, the pages are probably related somehow; if they don't, they're probably less so. We then use this similarity to provide recommendations and a search engine.

Registered users may view and maintain their personal bookmarks online, as well as get personalized search results and recommendations based on their submitted bookmarks.

Publications

• L. Stoilova, T. Holloway, B. Markines, A. Maguitman, F. Menczer: GiveALink: Mining a Semantic Network of Bookmarks for Web Search and Recommendation. Proc. KDD Workshop on Link Discovery: Issues, Approaches and Applications
• B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer: Implicit Tagging using Donated Bookmarks. Proc. WWW2006 Workshop on Collaborative Web Tagging, 2006
• B. Markines, L. Stoilova, F. Menczer: Social Bookmarks for Collaborative Search and Recommendation. Final version in Proc. AAAI 2006

About Us

• Filippo Menczer is our fearless leader. He is an associate professor of informatics and computer science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He runs a bunch of rag tag graduate students in the NaN Group.
• Ben Markines and Heather Roinestad are the tireless slaves running GiveALink. They are also PhD students in the Computer Science Department at Indiana University.
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• Also many thanks to: Lubomira Stoilova for her many hours spent on GiveALink before riding off to greener pastures (graduating). Todd Holloway for his contributions to the search engine, Luis Rocha, and Ana Maguitman for suggesting the idea of ranking and searching by novelty; Mark Meiss, who thought of the catchy name for GiveALink; Jacob Ratkiewicz, who knows the most obscure things about Perl and C++; and Rob Henderson -- quite possibly the greatest sysadmin around. Thank you for all the help!

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award N. IIS-0348940. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.