May 29, 2005
Yahoo! Mindset: Commercial vs. Non-Commercial Sites
Yahoo! has just released a new search, Yahoo! Mindset, which sounds like it will have interesting implications for site owners:
What is Mindset? 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).Sometimes you want to buy stuff and sometimes you just want to do research. In a typical search page, results point to commercial pages that are mixed together with non-commercial pages, so it's harder to find the type of information you're looking for. Mindset is our attempt to help solve that problem.
Read more from the Yahoo! Search blog.
Posted by BJ at May 29, 2005 03:11 AM