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You don't keep searching after you found what you were looking for, right?
- tyohn 17y agoSounds interesting. I guess the more users you get the better search results your search will return.
- zck 17y agoI like this idea. However, my browsing habits would mess this up. When I run a search, I'll often open the first two or three results that look good. I do this before looking at any of them. Still, even knowing that a result "looked good" might be enough to improve results.
- thrdOriginal 17y agoI do the same thing, which is why I have my doubts: I'll do a search and ctrl-click (or equivalent to open in a new tab) the top 4-5 that look promising. Last clicked in no way means it is the best result, especially considering that the last one I clicked will be further down in the search results and (theoretically) be the least applicable.
- tjpick 17y agoclicks-as-votes isn't new. There are many reasons for the last click though. 1. found what you want 2. got bored 3. tried a new search term 4. browser crashed 5. continued your searching session through the site (ie going forward not back) 6. tab based browsing It's true that you wouldn't keep searching after you found what you want, but that does not necessarily imply that if you stop searching you have found what you were looking for. Alternative search engines have tried and died.
- KWD 17y agoAnd to add: 7. Switched to Bing and/or Yahoo to compare results.
- pierrefar 17y agoThat's exactly how Google tracks your habits to personalize your search results. And recently they announced they're going to do it for everyone, not just logged in users.
- fizx 17y agoAt a conference, Norvig once mentioned that you not clicking on the number 1 link says a lot more than you clicking on the number 4 link. Just saying.
- angelbob 17y agoI'm generally in favor of people doing little mashups over the Google interface. I'll bet there's a lot of potentially interesting work in that area -- though I'd hate to try to make money off it.
- txxxxd 17y agoThis will bias results towards those that are already on the first few pages. New pages that are actually more relevant for a query(but haven't had time to get clicks) wouldn't stand a chance.
- zck 17y agoYou could make it a fraction -- last-clicks/views
- tjic 17y agoGoogle has been doing this for years. How is it interesting to add pre-existing Google functionality into a Firefox plugin that just duplicates what's already happening? Sounds like a perfect example of "often 6 months in the lab can save you 10 minutes in the library".
- nicpottier 17y agoYep, they've been doing this for a while. I still remember when they changed the result URL's to be redirects instead of direct links because they wanted to track exactly this behavior. It is a great idea, but uhm.. ya, a bit late to the party. :)
- chanux 17y agoWhen I search I scan through the search page and pickup interesting links and get them opened in tabs. Then I read opened tabs and if they don't have stuff I need, I refine my search query. I think my search style would feed lots of false positives to the research the writer is doing, if I participate :).