The Teachable Search Engine

from the give-it-some-time dept

David Plotnikoff from the San Jose Merc has a column today saying that he wants a more personalized search engine. He wants a search engine that, like Amazon's recommendations engine, learns from what he clicks on, and guesses at what he'll find interesting. I've actually seen a few research projects that touch on this sort of ability, and I think it's certainly possible to create such a thing. However, it might be quite a while before it would work well enough to be useful. The column also doesn't address the issue of what do you do when you want the "other" results? What if yesterday I'm interested in researching sequoia trees, and the next day I want to about Sequoia the VC firm or any other such example?

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