Comments on: Jerry’s Take On What’s Next in Search

By: Adam

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By: basu

basu — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:34:45 +0000

I was intrigued by the topic as the rest here … What’s next ? I would like to ask a question – is there a possibility of 3D becoming popular and people searching on shapes & 3D information in future? How long will the market take to adopt this concept?

By: D.T.

D.T. — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:11 +0000

The question to ask now isn’t if or when; it’s “what else.”

This is a very good observation. “What else”, The truth of the matter is that we will never be able to fix these problems in the context of building webpages and websites. The web is much to primitive to solve problems of complexity. Something is missing. That “What else” is a technology called V2. You wont have to go to the internet via the web, it will come to you via V2. Check it out at http://www.Webkiller.net

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:02:09 +0000

Is it true that that name “Yahoo!” does indeed come not only from acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle” but from the classic book Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift as well?

By: Bob Afifi

Bob Afifi — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 15:27:40 +0000

Is there anybody at Yahoo! to talk to about the search function of Yahoo! Groups? For a major search engine like Yahoo! to have such a poor search utility is out of character with the rest of the site. Is this a bug, oversight, what??

Many thanks in advance,

-Bob

By: iProceed.com

iProceed.com — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:22:27 +0000

Congratulations on your excellent work in recent weeks. We had sort of given up on Yahoo because almost all of our traffic was coming from Google. We are now seeing that things are changing, at least on our website/blog. We are seeing that the results produced by Yahoo search are much more accurate now and we get high quality traffic.

Keep up the good work. Competition is good for all.

By: Tom Philo

Tom Philo — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 00:13:01 +0000

Personalization can be overused both semantically and operationally.

If a system is always in training to “personalize” results based on past history then by design is will also narrow – exclude – results based on PAST precedents – not necessarily what is currently being researched / purchased / or wanting to know about NOW.

No different than the newspaper editor’s way of selecting stories. The wire service makes a decision as to what it will put onto the wire, the editor then eliminates what he thinks people are not interested in, then elimiates what there is no room for, and only after that do users get to eliminate what is left – but this is after three layers of filtering has already been done that most are not aware of.

The way personalization is being thought about and implemented now is effectively doing the same thing.

As long as users have a way of turning it OFF so as to take on the responsibilty of being their own editor will I think personalization – filtering – will be useful.

Of course, in dealing with masses of people, most people do not want to take on that responsibilty and are happy to let others dictate what is filtered out and what is ultimately delivered to them.

Tom Philo
http://www.taphilo.com

By: James Gordon

James Gordon — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:05:39 +0000

In Jerry Yang’s most recent post to the Yahoo! Search Blog, he says “people expect to find precisely what they’re looking for exactly as it relates to them.” Some of the points in Jerry’s post and the subsequent comments seem to be pointing towards behavoral analysis in order to deliver relevancy.
This IMHO is a fundamentally flawed argument as it will result in the views of a minority imposing their views on the majority.
What is needed is an understanding of the language being used or in short a linguistics approach that produces an element as yet unknown in the field of
search: context. With a sense of understanding the context of a query, results can be filtered to be entirely relevant to the query. The ‘Java’
example is a good one and it is worth bearing in mind that with the growth in domain name sales, virtually every word in the English language has more than one meaning now.
This is a new paradigm for search but will certainly be the way forward.
Have you seen the work done by linguist Prof. David Crystal and his company Crystal Semantics? They have some great linguistics based products for search and seem to deliver context solutions which solves problems like the many meanings of ‘apple’. Worth a look.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 17:00:08 +0000

So if Google's not building a browser then why are they appearing on my sitemeter report? http://thomashawk.com/2004/11/if-googles-not-creating-browser-then.html

By: peter da vanzo

peter da vanzo — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 03:21:21 +0000

Personalisation? I’m wondering if this area is being a little over-thought.

How about working on providing a more powerful tool so that the users can extract information more easily themselves, rather than trying to second-guess them?

For example, cluster the results and prompt the user with clarifying questions. “Did you mean java as in coffee or java as in programming language”.