A visual method for enhancing search result navigation, comprising:
obtaining a first search result from a search engine; clustering the
first search result to get clustering information; calculating the
correlations between the clustering information and the ranked list of
the first search result, and performing visualization processing on the
clustering information; and displaying the visual cluster hierarchy and
the ranked list of the first search result in a joint manner based on the
correlations. When a cluster is selected, further searching is performed
and the search result is clustered again. Using the present invention,
through combining a traditional ranked list of search results and the
visual cluster hierarchy of these search results to display them in a
joint manner, a convenient way is provided for the web user to find the
potential correlations between the visual cluster hierarchy and the
ranked list of the search results. Besides, through dynamically searching
and clustering more search results again, the web user may get more
detailed and more accurate search results easily.