Yahoo, Mindset ... and subject centric computing


I really like idea behind Mindset research project

It is great that we can easily change ranking of the search results by specifying our intention. I would suggest to extend idea of dimensions and to introduce "Document - Subject" dimension.

I think we should have one "Subject" node on the right side. On the left side we can have different nodes which correspond to different dimensions (Shopping, News, Entertainment etc.) . I think that other side of each dimension is "Subject" so all these dimensions are connected to one subject node.

So if we position our intention close to subject node we will have something like "Answers.com ": results are subject centric pages. But we can add different "flavors" to search request by adding more "News" or "Shopping" for example. Search results become less subject centric in this case.

Posted: Fri - June 10, 2005 at 11:44 AM      

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