New NewEgg Sale features $9.99 Sony PS3 Game  |  Top 100 Holiday Gadget Gift Guide

Yahoo! Mindset

Posted on Sat, 28 May 2005 02:12:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

More Other Stuff News

Yahoo! Mindset

Related Stories

Latest in Topic

Yahoo! like Google also has a Research Lab. Their newest search tool is called Yahoo! Mindset.

Yahoo! Mindset allows to sort results based on whether they are more commercial or more informational. A easy to use slider on top of the page allows to adjust the users current preference what kind of results he wants to see on top.
I played with the Mindset tool a bit and it returns interesting results. It can definitely distinct between commercial and non-commercial. I am bit confused on how the ranking within the categorized results are determined as they differ quite a bit from the unsorted list.


More details on the Yahoo! Search blog. Story via Productdose.

Looks like search engine result categorization is en vogue right now. I just reported about a new Google Search Assistant that uses Bayesian to categorize automatically Google results in informational, commercial and spam. Download it here for free.






Related Topics

Yahoo

Actions


Also a Hot Deal



Posted on Sat, 28 May 2005 02:12:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

I4U News Product Reviews

All I4U News Categories