Thu, 30 Sep 2004
Don
Park has an idea about wearing different hats while searching.
[via John
Battelle's Searchblog]
For example, if I search for 'Eclipse' while wearing the 'Software Developer'
hat, I should get Eclipse IDE related links before links related to the
astrophysical phenenomon. If even I was interested in the later, results I get
back should be different depending on whether I am wearing a Physicist's hat or
a Photographer's hat.
That example is rather silly, though. If you're searching for the Elipse IDE,
obviously you can just search for eclipse
ide or eclipse
java development, and if you're searching for astronomical eclipses, you'd
search for something like lunar
eclipse.
What would be useful is an "I'm not shopping for anything" option. There are
many sites that get in the way in Google's search results when you're trying to
research certain consumer electronics, for example.
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