google future
Apr. 1st, 2004 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattlistenerI checked out Google Personalized Search this morning, released just two days ago on labs.google.com.
One creates a profile of interests. I set mine to be IT, Mental Health, Home Improvement, Board Games, Video Games, Technology, GLB, Sexuality. Then one can do a personalized search.
Here's the awesome bit: the search results come with a slider with which you can affect how much your profile affects the ranking of the output. It goes from "normal rankings, profile-matches are just flagged" to "All profile matches beat non-matches."
The slider has *no delay*. Drag it back and forth, results shuffle before your eyes.
I tried a search on "spam". The top non-match was spam.abuse.net -- highly relevant, but not interesting reading at the moment.
The top profile-match was an article about "a better way to squelch spam", which discussed the centralized vs. decentralized players in next-generation spam fighting. The decentralized one, Camram, requires a ~15 second computation task to produce a header line that proves said effort was expended. No shortcuts, easy verification. I'll start using it now if I can.
So: it is good.
One creates a profile of interests. I set mine to be IT, Mental Health, Home Improvement, Board Games, Video Games, Technology, GLB, Sexuality. Then one can do a personalized search.
Here's the awesome bit: the search results come with a slider with which you can affect how much your profile affects the ranking of the output. It goes from "normal rankings, profile-matches are just flagged" to "All profile matches beat non-matches."
The slider has *no delay*. Drag it back and forth, results shuffle before your eyes.
I tried a search on "spam". The top non-match was spam.abuse.net -- highly relevant, but not interesting reading at the moment.
The top profile-match was an article about "a better way to squelch spam", which discussed the centralized vs. decentralized players in next-generation spam fighting. The decentralized one, Camram, requires a ~15 second computation task to produce a header line that proves said effort was expended. No shortcuts, easy verification. I'll start using it now if I can.
So: it is good.
