vertical_backend

Vertical results experiment on Mobiles. Contains the backend and html pages.

Has the following: server : node based server views : contains the html pages rendered when user searches js : javascript files to log events css : css design of pages (serp and otherwise)

Todo

1. Setup the api to display the results as per some configuration.

   • Set up microsoft api to fetch the results.
   • Configurations:
   • Assume you do not have same result block as google of vertical.
   • Search box design

2. Tracking user behavior:

   • Tracking the scrolls and swipes.
   • Tracking the clicks
   • Tracking the number of queries.
   • Tracking the time of each events.
   • Track zooming of pages.

3. App level functions:

   • Track back button for page.
   • Storing the feedback for each page.
   • Storing the feedback for each task.
   • User task tracking.

Todo Paper analysis

1. Explicit selection of verticals.

   • Spearman Rank correlation
   • Kendall Tau

2. Implicit behavior

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• python
• shell