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A Game with Many Purposes : Improving Information Retrieval Through Pleasurable Competition

Besides an obvious instrumental motivation, people often engage in information seeking because it is pleasurable. Recent projects by major search engine companies bear this out. For many people, finding information is fun. This paper describes a system that is currently under development whose design is predicated on this idea. The system is both a collaborative information seeking environment and an interactive game. The game has two goals: it supports collaborative information retrieval while aiming to help its players become more skillful users of IR systems in general.