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Your very own personal search engine

24 August 2005

Is your search engine failing to serve up the pages you want? Do you wish it could understand your hobbies as well as you do? The solution may be on the horizon, in the shape of a search engine that automatically ranks results according to information about your personal interests it gathers from your PC.

Personalising searches has long been a challenge. Search engine Vivisimo allows searchers to personalise pages manually by clustering the results of ambiguous searches. This allows subsequent searches for “jaguar”, for example, to group pages into separate categories for cats and cars.

Now Jaime Teevan of…

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