协同浏览和搜索社区

Introduction Finding quickly relevant and reliable information on the web is a non-trivial task. While internet search engines do find correct web pages w.r.to a set of keywords, they often cannot ensure the relevance or reliability of the pages" content. A promising approach tries to harness internet users in the spirit of Web 2.0, i.e., making contributions to the web. The idea is that user collaboratively search or browse for information, either directly by communicating or indirectly by adding meta information (e.g., tags, ratings, comments) to web pages. COBS is an ongoing research project to develop such features in a website independent manner using browser add-ons. Currently COBS is available only for Firefox. Features For a first glance at the COBS add-on, click on the thumbnails below to see some screenshots, or find here are more detailed presentation of the features. Additionally, we provide a short