With more information flowing our way than ever before from an increasing number of connections and sources, intelligent ranking is setting up to be the next big trend on the Web.
my6sense introduces the next evolution in search, and how true personalization can leverage and leapfrog
11. The Web’s Leaders Vying for Position “ The idea is to push information to people. It’s location in context… There’s search, mobile, local and social.” Marissa Mayer, Google “ With 100 million tweets flowing through the system on a daily basis, there's something for everyone, but the real challenge is finding the most valuable stuff for you.” Ev Williams, Twitter “ With a normal website, your technology is focused on caching. But Facebook is completely personalized. Every time you visit, you get a unique personal experience.” Bret Taylor, Facebook "The next step of search is doing this automatically. This notion of autonomous search - to tell me things I didn't know but am probably interested in, is the next great stage - in my view - of search. ” Eric Schmidt, Google
14. Approaches to Personalization njj Collaborative/Social Individual Behavior Adapts due to community feedback to surface “interesting” items, often guided due to popularity, trending topics or demographic data. Driven by individual and community feedback through voting , stars, ratings, “thumbs up and down”, and keyword preferences. Adapts to your selected interests and responds to direct inputs to the system through voting , and chosen criteria. Content is filtered. Adapts to the individual based on natural activity through the system. With more use, system’s predictive behavior improves.