Adaptable Google
google? Kasia has an entry on her blog about Dave Winer’s idea
of an adaptive page rank for google. But what I really found
interesting was the comment posted by
I like the idea of a “personalized” Google. It should
be fairly easy, since Google is already setting a unique cookie for
you. Beyond this idea, I like the idea of clustering groups of
similar matches for a search term. For instance, let’s say a doctor
and a guitar builder both search for “neck”. The first time, both
will get results from everything containing “neck”. The doctor will
click on a link talking about the human neck anatomy, and the
guitar builder will click on a link dealing with how to straighten
a crooked guitar neck.Now, the next time the guitar builder searches for “neck”, it will
remember that he chose from the guitar neck cluster, and give those
hits increased priority (with a mention that it had been done, and
a toggle to remove the filter).Almost every search term has multiple meanings, and it’d be fairly
easy to cluster them. Currently, a guitarist or a guitar builder
searching for “neck” will 99% of the time click on a page in this
cluster. They’ll also search for things like “fret”, “bridge”,
“strings”, etc - so these terms can be used to add weight to a
given cluster.
Now, this could be the next search engine revolution!
