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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!