Comments on: Test feature shows social search may be on the way for Google

A Google user takes screenshots of what appears to be a Digg- or StumbleUpon-like voting system; it might never see public release, but it may mean the company is building new technologies in-house.

[webdoodle]

I wrote an article about why StumbleUpon would take over the search arena because their system does the same thing that this article says Google is testing. Why StumbleUpon is Poised to Take Over Search



StumbleUpon never fully developed the search ability, which is too bad, because now that Google is testing it on there enormous userbase, StumbleUpon may well, stumble.

[worldsnow99]

Me.dium just released a search engine that does this technology one better. Instead of being able to edit search, this engine lets you search what people are viewing at the current time. Instead of voting on a link, it shows you exactly what people have surfed most. The data is from the people and will create more relevant results for those looking for the best information.

Me.dium?s Social Search, which leverages the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform, provides an entirely new level of information on top of traditional search. Me.dium?s Social Search harnesses the activity of the crowds to let you find information that has relevance based on what people are actually surfing right now.

Me.dium?s technology lets the inherent activity of real people - not robotic crawlers - determine relevance. Me.dium?s Social Search results show what people are surfing and find interesting, right now. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium?s Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.

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[flickrz]

So finally, google is going the Yahoo! search route. It has been over a year that Yahoo! has search assist (their version of social search that recommends related queries based on previous searches). The only difference in this one is that google lets you change the ranking while Yahoo! doesn't. This is not necessarily a good thing after claiming for years that our algorithms are better than what people think the rank should be.