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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

Yahoo Mindset

Monday June 20, 2005
Check out Yahoo Mindset. What is it?
"A Yahoo! Research Labs demo that applies a new twist on search that uses machine learning technology to give you a choice: View Yahoo! Search results sorted according to whether they are more commercial or more informational (i.e., from academic, non-commercial, or research-oriented sources)."
I think it's about time something like this came out. What it does is separate the information: are you more interested in shopping or research?

For instance, I typed in "coffee grinder." A cool little slider tool came up that allowed me to skew my results more toward shopping or more towards research. Try it, you'll like it.

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