[Search-l] NPOV for Search?

[Alex Halavais]

On Jan 8, 2008 10:37 PM, John McCormac <jmcc at hackwatch.com> wrote:
> The social aspect of search is that it may provide some guidelines as to what the user is searching
> for. The obvious example is that if I was searching for something Waterford related, I would most
> probably not be looking for something from Waterford Michigan or anywhere other than Waterford
> Ireland. Now if that was part of my profile, it could be used to narrow the results. But that might
> be going a bit too far with social search - taking the user into the search.
>

I don't see why that would be taking things too far! If everyone you
have friended on Wikia has followed links relating to Ireland in the
past, I think it would be perfectly reasonable for the search aengine
to rank links related to Ireland's Waterford higher. If it turns out
you were being a rebel, and really wanted Michigan links, you would
quickly re-search with Michigan as a keyword.

I figured that was what the social networking was for :).

Alex


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