42244 0 3 econsultancy_xml <p> <a href="http://www.mysidekick.com/">Mysidekick</a> monitors the search terms used and the sites that searchers find most useful when searching. These sites are automatically tagged and the tagged sites are highlighted for future searches. </p> <p>If you click on a search result (the results are powered by Yahoo!) and then return to the search page after some time, MySidekick will take this to mean that this was a successful/useful result. Such results will then move up to the top of the page in the "People's Choice" section. </p> <p> <img alt="Mysidekick search results" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1106/1028521114_6a4f503c92_o.jpg" /> </p> <p>For instance, after searching for 'internet marketing news', clicking on the E-consultancy link and lingering a while, any future searches now show this blog in the people's choice section at the top of the page. </p> <p>This raises the question of how easy it will be to manipulate search results, though this may become less of a problem if and when the search engine gains more users. </p> <p>A couple of other recent search engines have also attempted to harness human feedback to improve on Google and Yahoo!. </p> <p> <a href="/blog/1277-calacanis-launches-human-powered-search-engine">Mahalo, from Jason Calacanis</a>, has produced some excellent results for a number of queries but, as it relies on a team of editors to create the results, it will struggle to deliver a comprehensive list of results. It currently has around 4,000 search results. </p> <p>Another recently launched search engine, <a href="/blog/1543-search-engine-irazoo-launches">iRazoo</a>, gets searchers to recommend links and rewards them with points which they can use to buy prizes. </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Link URL="http://www.mysidekick.com/" Window="Self">Mysidekick</Link> monitors the search terms used and the sites that searchers find most useful when searching. These sites are automatically tagged and the tagged sites are highlighted for future searches. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>If you click on a search result (the results are powered by Yahoo!) and then return to the search page after some time, MySidekick will take this to mean that this was a successful/useful result. Such results will then move up to the top of the page in the "People's Choice" section. </Paragraph> <Paragraph Align="Center"> <Image AlternateText="Mysidekick search results" Source="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1106/1028521114_6a4f503c92_o.jpg"> </Image> </Paragraph> <Paragraph>For instance, after searching for 'internet marketing news', clicking on the E-consultancy link and lingering a while, any future searches now show this blog in the people's choice section at the top of the page. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>This raises the question of how easy it will be to manipulate search results, though this may become less of a problem if and when the search engine gains more users. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>A couple of other recent search engines have also attempted to harness human feedback to improve on Google and Yahoo!. </Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Link URL="/blog/1277-calacanis-launches-human-powered-search-engine" Window="Self">Mahalo, from Jason Calacanis</Link>, has produced some excellent results for a number of queries but, as it relies on a team of editors to create the results, it will struggle to deliver a comprehensive list of results. It currently has around 4,000 search results. </Paragraph> <Paragraph>Another recently launched search engine, <Link URL="/blog/1543-search-engine-irazoo-launches" Window="Self">iRazoo</Link>, gets searchers to recommend links and rewards them with points which they can use to buy prizes. </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> 2007-08-06T12:22:00+01:00 0 1 econsultancy_xml <p> <strong>MySidekick is a social search engine that tries to improve on the search results offered by the major players by learning from the search habits of its users.</strong> </p> <p> <img alt="MySidekick" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/1027218891_5199881fd8.jpg" /> </p> <FormattedContent xmlns="http://www.e-consultancy.com/schema/formattedContent/"> <Paragraph> <Emphasis>MySidekick is a social search engine that tries to improve on the search results offered by the major players by learning from the search habits of its users.</Emphasis> </Paragraph> <Paragraph> <Image AlternateText="MySidekick" Source="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1432/1027218891_5199881fd8.jpg"> </Image> </Paragraph> </FormattedContent> false 1594 363955 MySidekick - a social search engine false 2007-08-06T15:00:00+01:00 mysidekick-a-social-search-engine 2009-04-28T22:55:42+01:00 2009-04-28T22:55:42+01:00 232