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Search Engine Learns From User Feedback

Posted by simoniker on from the double-meanings-never-so-confusing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ian Clarke, founder of the Freenet project, has set up a web search engine that allows users to rate each of the search results it returns. WhittleBit will use your feedback to determine which keywords should be added or removed from your search, then you can search again to get more accurate results. This could be useful for those cases where Google just refuses to return the search results you want. Could improved interactivity be the next big search engine advancement after Pagerank?"

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  1. Body before it gets /.ed by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was going well until we realised that all people wanted was pron so we just provide that now.

  2. Re:Sounds Great...but by jrkotrla · · Score: 5, Funny

    hmm...

    You're aren't required to do anything.... are barely allowed to do anything..... and this is perfect?

    you must be a Mac user, right?

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  3. Re:No. by mhesseltine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this testing a concept? YES

    Could something like this be implemented in Google? YES

    Is this supposed to replace Google? NO

    Are you a troll? YES

    Thanks for playing.

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