Yahoo! Releases New Search Tool 146
rcrc writes "Yahoo! Research Labs has recently released a new search tool that gives the opportunity to the user to choose whether they are looking for informational sites, or shopping sites, based upon a slider bar. This tool is currently in beta and more information can be found in the FAQ." From the article: "With the slider in the middle position, only the default Yahoo! Search sort is used. When the slider is at either end, only the secondary commercial/non-commercial sort is used. But when the slider is anywhere in between, Yahoo! Mindset presents a blend of the two sorting systems."
yahoo! Next (Score:2, Interesting)
http://next.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] this one is cool http://farechase.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] try this http://movies.yahoo.com/recommendations/ [yahoo.com]
Nice idea (Score:4, Interesting)
Another slider idea: Date vs. Page Rank (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nice idea (Score:3, Interesting)
Great idea, poor execution (Score:2, Interesting)
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Which are not exactly what I would call useful research sites. Wikipedia [yahoo.com]comes in #4.
Re:It actually works (Score:3, Interesting)
However, I don't think it will take Google very long to respond to this now that Yahoo's solution is out there.
Re:It actually works (Score:2, Interesting)
A slider is too simple because it implies there are only 2 goals of searching. I beg to differ. The internet is not cleanly divided into 2 ends of a spectrum. (What about entertainment?)
A slider is too complicated because it forces you to balance exactly how much of each category you are looking for. Who really needs that? I'm going to want the slider all the way left, all the way right, or just search for everything. That means checkboxes. Good old fashioned boolean logic. Check the research box, check the entertainment box, uncheck shopping. Search. Bingo.
Re:Does anyone know of (a) search engines that (Score:3, Interesting)
Oops.. now with formatting: