Have you ever searched for something and wished you could tell the search engine that it was totally on the wrong track and it should try again? Well now you can! WhittleBit works much like most other search engines, except it can help you to refine your searches by allowing you to give positive or negative feedback on each search result. Simply rate the search results by clicking on the positive or negative buttons then click on Whittle to get a refined set of search results based on your feedback
This is like training my Subject Tracer Bots™ that I have been telling folks to do for years. It really makes sense to improve the search results by interactively communicating with the search entity and finally we are seeing developers implementing. By the way, the creator of WhittleBit is Ian Clarke, the founder of the excellent Freenet Project.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:30 AM
