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1月17日 Search Engines - Personalized Experiences?Time to revisit Search Engines; specifically around personalization. I've taken a peek at Filangy (www.filangy.com), and of course, Amazon's A9 search engine (www.a9.com), and I must say that they do a fairly good job of addressing the problem of personalization - with one critical flaw in my opinion. You have to sign up to use them. That kinda sucks - I want roaming personalization. I don't want to sign in every single time I switch machines. I want to use a personalizable search engine from the get go. I don't want to sign up for anything. But I don't want anyone to be snoopin' around my PC. And I reckon that's also why MSN hasn't gone down the personalization path yet to a great extent. (That, plus the fact that the Search folks are still trying to get the basics super right). There's of course clustering as well... Clusty (www.clusty.com) and a couple of others offer some form of cluster or results refinement (like Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com). But this doesn't work either. It's too troublesome. "But it's only one click!" That's one click too many, and one thing too many to distract from the actual task at hand. And I've always found clustering to be un-intuitive honestly (speaking for myself and no one else). So what's the solution? I don't have answers obviously, but I really like what Snap! has done... www.snap.com. The user interface is pretty intuitive (similar to what MSN offers for our Desktop Search product if you think about it). You can filter on the fly without any perceived latency (DHTML). But the problem is that it takes quite a while to fetch the results in the first place. Even then, my opinion is that it's the right idea... especially seeing how my personal belief that the WWW is the OS of the future (i.e. with ultra fast gig-per-seconds broadband etc.) and web sites will be no different from what you run on your computer (requires more than just markup language and TCP/IP probably, but what the heck... this is suppose to be "vision of the future" stuff anyway :-) Oh if you haven't - Try MSN Search (http://beta.search.msn.com.sg/). I biased, so don't ask me for an opinion on a product I'm working for... it's all good ;-) トラックバックこの記事のトラックバックの URL は次のとおりです。 http://adrianlee.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B21007FB96A62E3!253.trak この記事を参照しているブログ
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