Finding Friends Via Search Query Analysis

prostoalex writes "How many times have you met an interesting person, who happened to check out the same book in the library, or listen to the same music as you do? Researchers from University of Chicago suggest that it would be kinda cool if you could find like-minded people by analyzing the queries submitted to a Web search engine. Their PDF paper explains the research in more detail."

Comments

AudioScrobbler

[mgaiman]

What about AudioScrobbler? They use the music that you listen to and compare it to the music other people listen to. They then find people with similar music tastes to you, and then you can expand your tastes by looking at what they listen to.

(see my audioscrobbler>

Re:What about referers?

[caluml]

Try adding GeoURL tags to your page. Then you get a nice listing of everyones site near to you.

Mediachest Let's You See What Your Friends Own

[muscleman706]

There's a site called mediachest.com which lets you keep track of what dvds, games, cds, and books you own, then see what your friends own and it lets you create sharing networks between yourself and friends and people you know.
The relevancy here is that because your collection is in the site's database, you have the ability to find other people with similiar interests and those can be narrowed down to people local to you (close to a certain postal code). It even lets you find like minded people based on what school you go to.

Re:Expand your tastes?

[Kinlan]

www.gnod.net is similar to what you are saying... I think it has quite a cool interface as well, but it not only does music, but books and films as well