News Source: http://www.splitbrain.org
Published: Jun 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Story Found By: graywolf 1428 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
I’ll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I’ll bet they also didn’t want him using it because it "polluted" the bookmark data stream, with every site the person visited instead of just the ones the user "voted" for
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interesting story but for some reason it seems a bit fishy to me....
hmmmmmm - ya’ll might want to read up on this Google Patent - http://www.huomah.com/search-engines/algorithm-matters/your-favortite-sites-could-rock-the-serps.htmlHas to do with ranking signals from Favorties... now the engineer in this story was also involved in search history.... so this could be mostly Personalized Search related IMO
"Google couldn’t scale" or maybe his plugin skewed the results making personalized search ineffective?
It sounds like it would have polluted the personalized results IMO - the engineer worked in both the bookmarks and search history so it sure sounds that way.