Search results diversification in competitive search
Tommy Mordo, Itamar Reinman, Moshe Tennenholtz, Oren Kurland

TL;DR
This paper explores how integrating results diversification into ranking functions in competitive web search settings can lead to stable equilibria and reduce content mimicking among authors, improving search diversity and fairness.
Contribution
It introduces a new framework for diversity-based ranking in competitive search and demonstrates its theoretical and empirical benefits over relevance-only approaches.
Findings
Diversity-based ranking achieves equilibrium in competitive search.
Diversification mitigates content mimicking among authors.
Empirical results show improved search result diversity.
Abstract
In Web retrieval, there are many cases of competition between authors of Web documents: their incentive is to have their documents highly ranked for queries of interest. As such, the Web is a prominent example of a competitive search setting. Past work on competitive search focused on ranking functions based solely on relevance estimation. We study ranking functions that integrate a results-diversification aspect. We show that the competitive search setting with diversity-based ranking has an equilibrium. Furthermore, we theoretically and empirically show that the phenomenon of authors mimicking content in documents highly ranked in the past, which was demonstrated in previous work, is mitigated when search results diversification is applied.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCompetitive and Knowledge Intelligence
