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The idea of tapping the collective wisdom of communities has floated around academia for years. Startup Eurekster hit the market first with its social search technology in early 2004. Since then, several other upstarts have jumped in with different twists on the general concept, including Jeteye Technologies and Kaboodle. <BR /><BR /> But Yahoo represents its greatest opportunity for traction, due to its hefty $4 billion war chest and 200 million active registered users. If Yahoo can begin to entice its legions of visitors to try some of its community offerings, be it sharing photos on Flickr or listing favorite blogs via blo.gs, it can begin to apply social search on a wider scale.
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Currently, Yahoo is applying social search on a limited basis in its My Web 2.0 beta product. Users can save pages, as well as "tag" particular sites with descriptors such as "funny" or "research." These bookmarks and tags can be shared with others within a network of friends and contacts. Yahoo won't disclose the number of people using the service, but the site says that there have been 614,000 pages saved and 141,000 tags authored.
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Yahoo represents its greatest opportunity for traction, due to its hefty $4 billion war chest and 200 million active registered users. If Yahoo can begin to entice its legions of visitors to try some of its community offerings, be it sharing photos on Flickr or listing favorite blogs via blo.gs, it can begin to apply social search on a wider scale.
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Known in industry parlance as "social search," it presents a significant departure from Google's (GOOG) main approach, which relies on complicated mathematical models to help users find sites.
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t could represent a monumental shift in search technology. All major engines analyze the link structure of the Web as a key ingredient in determining what pages are most relevant -- a breakthrough that Google championed when it launched in 1998. A Web page that has a lot of other sites linking to it will rank higher, figuring more prominently in a given search, than one with only a few incoming links. Social search aims to shift power from Web publishers, who create these links, to everyday Internet users by examining their bookmarks or giving them tools to express their opinions.
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Some question whether enough Internet users will spend the time on these sites needed to make them effective. The idea is to turn Web search from a passive activity to an interactive one, and the first major effort involves selecting a circle of friends. That means e-mailing people, inviting them to join a network, and responding to requests from others. After that, the more users interact with content, the more power social search will have. But that could involve more time-consuming online activities, from simple bookmarking to labeling and reviewing Web sites. It's not clear users will make that kind of investment.
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25 Aug 06
Tuija Aalto"By cultivating online communities -- and encouraging people to tap into the collective knowledge of these groups -- Yahoo is hoping to change the way people find information online. Known in industry parlance as "social search," it presents a significant
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22 Aug 06
Lee DryburghStartup Eurekster hit the market first with its social search technology in early 2004. Since then, several other upstarts have jumped in with different twists on the general concept, including Jeteye Technologies and Kaboodle.
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04 Jun 06
Gary BurgeIn a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds
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19 May 06
Brooke SmithLink found in Eureka Reports links.
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27 Feb 06
Marc BogaardIn a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds.
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Yahoo didn't invent social search. The idea of tapping the collective wisdom of communities has floated around academia for years. Startup Eurekster hit the market first with its social search technology in early 2004. Since then, several other upstarts have jumped in with different twists on the general concept, including Jeteye Technologies and Kaboodle. But Yahoo represents its greatest opportunity for traction, due to its hefty $4 billion war chest and 200 million active registered users. If Yahoo can begin to entice its legions of visitors to try some of its community offerings, be it sharing photos on Flickr or listing favorite blogs via blo.gs, it can begin to apply social search on a wider scale. LONG WAY TO GO. Currently, Yahoo is applying social search on a limited basis in its My Web 2.0 beta product. Users can save pages, as well as "tag" particular sites with descriptors such as "funny" or "research." These bookmarks and tags can be shared with others within a network of friends and contacts. Yahoo won't disclose the number of people using the service, but the site says that there have been 614,000 pages saved and 141,000 tags authored. As with all community sites, the benefits grow with the size and activity of the group. That means Yahoo's social-search trial, still in its infancy, could take months or years before reaching its potential. "Social search is not one of these things that will take off overnight," says Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li. "It will take a lot of time to build."
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social search engine tries to fill the information gap between what people really mean by tapping in keywords and what the computer algorithm can help. Social search engines do this by gleaning input and preferences from the communities with which the searcher is associated.
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