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PredictAd Search Assist has a collaborative filtering feature that learns community search patterns. If you start typing in the demo attached you will start getting autocomplete results (with contextual advertisements) - these results will optimize based on the popularity of certain search terms/phrases.
If Jimmy Wales is reading - take a close look…PredictAd is FREE and its contextual advertising platform gives the publisher something that Adwords simply doesn’t! Moreover, it’s the first Ajax service offered on the web, and it’s a cool one at that…
Wikia Search is the first true social search engine. That Google ran a similar concept thru the Labs says a great deal about the potential of social search engines, like Facebook and LinkedIn.
Chandra
Chandra,
The issue is not simply whether any user generated content makes a difference. The issue is whether giving up control over the *first* result to unregistered users will improve quality for a large swath of queries over the long run.
Yes, the web is growing fast, but you would hope that the algorithmically generated results would have that covered (they dont yet for Search Wikia, unfortunately).
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