Web by the people, for the people, of the people

摘要

World Wide Web is undoubtedly a human creation. It was facilitated by a number of major inventions. Its continuous development results largely from innovative engineering efforts. The Web viewed as essentially a service provided on the Internet offers many different functions. We discuss information providing functionality offered as “Web search”. Recent trends involve devising schemes to make search more personalized. This is just one example of a service provided for the people. In order to devise a web functionality to work better for the user, there are studied specific human characteristics when working on the Web. For example, each human uses a keyboard or a mouse in a slightly different way. Tracing user's gaze can also contribute to adjusting a particular service better to user's need. However, the Web ultimately develops to an infrastructure that is capable to connect people. Social networking sites or services offer connecting capability to existing social networks. Much more, they facilitate forming new social networks or perhaps other kinds of structures to be studied in a interdisciplinary way, including not only engineering, but also disciplines from social sciences. This is true for the whole Web of the people that brings many challenges, e.g. sensitive issues of privacy and security.