Clustering e-commerce search engines based on their search interface pages using WISE-Cluster

In this paper, we propose a new approach to clustering e-commerce search engines (ESEs) on the Web. Our approach utilizes the features available on the interface page of each ESE, including the label terms and value terms appearing in the search form, the number of images, normalized price terms as well as other terms. The experimental results based on more than 400 ESEs indicate that the proposed approach has good clustering accuracy. The importance of different types of features is analyzed and the terms in the search form are the most important feature in obtaining quality clusters. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.