Posts Tagged ‘search’

The Demographics of Web Search
adaviel sends a link to work out of Yahoo Research indicating that demographics can help Web searches; e.g. a women searching for “wagner” probably wants the 18th-century German composer, while for men in the US “wagner” is a paint sprayer. The Yahoo researchers claim that by taking user demographics into account, “they managed to get the chosen link to appear as the top-ranked result 7 per cent …

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I’m not looking to get onto myspace or any of that bloody useless stuff. I just need to research something and it keeps getting blocked.

School internet is crap.