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Re: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity

Rob Rustad — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:06:08 -0000

While Collarity may share a common interface attribute with Yahoo Mindset (an ajax slider), the underpinning search mechanics are very different. Collarity is a web service that collects user-generated search activity on a partnerâ€™s site, extracts the knowledge from the implicit communities that are formed, and then applies the gathered intelligence in a way that allows all users to quickly see what other experts and searchers like them have found previously. Collarity is an easy way for web publishers to provide both personalized results and collaborative filtering from every other visitor on the publisher's site.

Re: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity

keanu zhang — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:15:09 -0000

sounds great! I think Collarity need to solve 2 things:
1)global search should have similiar accurate result with google or other giant engines
2)squeezing from global to personal search, algorithm can precisely predict personal behavior; otherwise, users will abandon useless service soon.

Re: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity

Swapan — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:08:14 -0000

Personalized search is definitely the next 'killer' idea in the search segment of the market. However, looking at the number of companies trying to corner this market, it reminds me of late 1990s when Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista and other search engines abandoned the â€œsearchâ€ functionality and went after the portal market. This gave an opening to Google. All these new venture funded companies are trying to capture the personalized search market at any cost, and may end up with a great personalization tool and a crapy search engine. Googleâ€™s â€œBackRubâ€ project was out there for years before any VC funding was raised. For any new search company to be successful and take market share from Google, it has to be more than a pretty tool, including a business model that will bring revenue.

Re: The social search engines keep coming — this time, it’s Collarity

Search Engines WEB — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:37:48 -0000

This promising search concept has been explored before by Yahoo as a beta, and currently exists on Alltheweb.com

http://mindset.research.yah...

The only distinction is that the AJAX SERPs slider goes from SHOPPING to INFORMATIONAL oriented Results.