The HeyStaks API (HAPI) lets any developer add human context to search, by understanding the individual preferences of each searcher and promoting results that people with similar interests have previously found interesting. With just a few simple steps, an existing search system is made more relevant and tailored, resulting in higher click-throughs, conversions and, ultimately, revenues. HAPI operates over a RESTful interface and as a result it can integrate with any search environment quickly and easily.
Searching for information on the Web can be difficult, despite the huge advances that search engines like Google have made in recent years. One of the reasons for this is that the preferences of individual users are not considered when results are being returned. The HeyStaks platform can be used to modify any existing Web browser (desktop or mobile) and make existing search engines such as Google more personalized and relevant.
The "Discovery Analytics" dashboard provides a window into the community model built up by the search activities of users. The dashboard visualizes the aggregated behaviors of a population of users, showing topics that people are interested in, topics that people share, and also identifying the users with the highest degree of expertise on a particular topic, query or URL, as measured by HeyStaks patented reputation model.
HeyStaks understands the context of your searches, not just your immediate, transient context (location, time of day, etc), but also the richer historical context, including your long-term interests, what queries you tend to enter, what you have found relevant in the past, etc. Our platform takes in the context signals for all of your users' searching activities and without any change of behavior on their part, dynamically returns the most relevant results for every search.
HeyStaks can be used in eLearning environments, to store and reuse the search efforts of educators and students, reducing the amount of research duplication that occurs and enabling serchers to develop deeper insights into the material they find.
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