Internet Browsing and Searching: User Evaluations of Category Map and Concept Space Techniques.

This study found that a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM) algorithm for browsing can categorize a large and eclectic Internet-information space into manageable sub-spaces that users can navigate to find relevant home pages. An automatically generated concept-space algorithm for searching was shown to enhance keyword-based Internet searching. Contains 65 references. (PEN)