On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> wrote:
* Does the site learn from the navigation and
searches? That is, if a
Wikipedia visitor who reads a Network entry then goes to the Manuel Castells
entry, Will the system understand there is a connexion between them? Will
next time put them together when presenting search results?
No.
Although that is an interesting area of research.
Unfortunately, due to privacy concerns the data that would be required
to invent such a system (search strings and search click through
traces) is not available to the public. (and in fact, the traces
aren't really collected, currently, as far as I know)