HeyStaks: A Real-World deployment of Social Search

6th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '12), Dublin, Ireland, 9th-13th September, 2012The purpose of this paper is to provide a deployment update for the HeyStaks social search system which uses recommendation techniques to add collaboration to mainstream search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. We describe our the results of initial deployments, including an assessment of the quality of HeyStaks' recommendations, and highlight some lessons learned in the marketplace