Interesting new tool ‘under development’ from Yahoo! Once you’ve done the search for your term(s), then you can slide a lil’ bar marker to limit it to the more commercial or more research oriented links. Very interesting.

They call it “intent driven search“.

Mindset (Beta)

Mindset :: 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).

Thanks to Kafkaesquí for the tip.

Kafkaesqui’s take on it is a good description: “Actually it’s more like a volume control, in that it (theoretically) allows you to tune out the noise. Interesting.”

For more interesting tools under development, visit YahooNext.

Following this Yahoo! train of thought, I’ve installed the Y!Q Beta search plugin on this site. Where ever you see this image, you can click on it and find a context search for the term it is applied to – in this case it is Mindset.

The plugin comes from david(at)linsin.de.

As you see, there is a lil’ quirk to the plugin. It centers the whole post if you use it. It doesn’t affect the rest of the blog or other posts. Just the one post you place it in. Interesting. Maybe we’ll find a fix. I’m wondering if the problem comes from accessing the Yahoo javascript in the code (javascript/yq.js)? I’ll keep playing with it and see if I can get it to work with this theme. David says the plugin is sort of style/theme dependent. We’ll see. It has promise. (Update: Found a workaround by always putting any usage of the plugin ‘after’ the !–more– tag. Not a perfect fix, but it works.)