The simple answer to how Helioid benefits users is that Helioid represents information and information navigation in a more efficient manner. This gets a complex when looking at how each individual uses the internet and searches for information, but still the core is the same. A current issue with web search, as Google’s Marissa Mayer explains, is that it is undeveloped and not advanced, “Think of it like biology and physics in the 1500s or 1600s: it’s a new science where we make big and exciting breakthroughs all the time.”
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How Helioid Benefits Users
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009If Microsoft’s Thumbtack was Intelligent
Saturday, January 17th, 2009In early December Microsoft Live Labs released Thumbtack, which is said to: “[use] machine learning and natural language techniques to understand the information you give it.” Looking through the interface one notices some interesting tools. Such as a gadget that creates plots based on attributes of the items you collect and a “Layout Gadget” that I assume creates layouts but currently appears to only work with IE7. Intelligent parsing of information, on demand analysis, visualization, there are great ideas here. The unaccomplished obstacle is how to allow users access to these in an intuitive and simple fashion.
Continue Reading...Google’s SearchWiki as a step towards more user control
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Google recently released their new SearchWiki feature which allows users, who are logged into a Google account, to rearrange search results (by clicking on arrows that move them up or down one slot), remove results from the returned list, and comment on results (all comments are made public). More information is in this Google blog article.
It’s encouraging to see Google taking user responses into account. It has always been our opinion that this is something sadly missing from the mainstream search world. Google also states that the results’ movements, removals, and comments will not be used as input to their search algorithms. Well, at least not yet.
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