Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 02:16:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rashid Hussain
Yahoo! introduced a new search tool, Mindset, which enables users to
search and to sort the search results on the basis of commercial or
informational value. The beta version, available as an online tool, allows
the users to view what they want unlike existing search tools that give
mega piles of unorganized information.
In Mindset, search queries can be adjusted by moving a slider located on
top of the search page, to the left or right to determine the nature of
results wanted -- commercial or informational.
It is significant that Yahoo! has quietly come out with this innovative
tool after the much-publicized personalized Google home page was launched
a couple of days back. Mindset is located on the Yahoo Research Labs' site
Yahoo Next.
The default setting of the slider shows results based on Yahoo's normal
listing, while moving it to the right will make the results arranged on an
informational basis and to the left on a commercial basis. Yahoo said
Mindset is based on machine learning process, which carries out the search
through algorithms developed so that the results are thrown on a
continuous scale raging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial".
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Rashid Hussain Siddiqui
ADIS 2nd Year Student
Documentation Research & Training Centre(DRTC)
Indian Statistical Institute
8th Mile Mysore Road
Bangalore : 560059
Phone No. : 080-28483975
