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Context is always helpful and obviously should be used in addition to personal history and even override it, but if the query has little context, the only conte
by marcus 18y ago
Context is always helpful and obviously should be used in addition to personal history and even override it, but if the query has little context, the only context you can get is from the users historical data.
Personalization doesn't guarantee better results but it obviously improves results.
- gaius 18y agoI'm not saying that's not true, just that Cuil must believe that they don't need it, and it's too soon to see if they're right. I do most of my searches on www.msdewey.com anyway :-)
- mattjung 18y agoHistorical data may as well be misleading because the profile of a user is not "static", simply because there's a human being behind it (and sometimes even more than one, but that's another story). His personal and professional environment, his wishes and necessities, the context of his life may change from one day to the other. The assumption that the past queries of a user will improve the results of his current queries is at least questionable (especially for former programmers that start selling reptiles...)