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Frames are a technique used in web pages to divide the page into multiple windows, where each window is called a frame and can contain its own separate page. The advantage of frames is that one window can be scrolled or changed while other windows remain fixed for such purposes as keeping a menu in view all the time. The disadvantage is that not all browsers support them.
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frames - by Yashmeet Khopkar, Amanda Spink, C. Lee Giles, Prital Shah, and Sandip DebnathAbstractWeb search engines are beginning to offer personalization capabilitiesto users. Personalization is the ability of the Web site to matchretrieved information content to a user's profile. This content can beset explicitly by the user or derived implicitly by the Web site usingsuch user profile information as zip code, birth date, etc. In thispaper we report findings from a study qualitatively and quantitativelyassessing the current state of personalization on 60 search engine Websites and the personalization features available.We examined: (1) how many search engines Web sites currently offerpersonalization features; and, (2) the type of features that can bepersonalized. Findings show that: (1) eight (13 percent) of the 60search engines, including Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, Excite and Netscape,enabled some level of personalization; and, (2) personalizationfeatures are largely related to e-mail, business and financialinformation, searching of a reference tool, such as yellow pages,entertainment listings, sports, and news headlines. The breadth anddepth of personalization features varied across search engines, with amean number of two personalization features per site. "My Yahoo" hadthe most extensive personalization feature capability. Our findingsshow that despite the high level of interest in Web personalization,most search engine Web sites currently offer no or limitedpersonalization features.http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_7/khopkar/index.html
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