SearchCloud Weights Keywords To Improve Search Relevance
Summary
Instead of simply entering multiple keywords, users can rank how important each term is to the search. Each term is placed in a “search cloud”, where its weight is indicated by the size of the font. To further refine the search, you could enter terms like “iphone” and “app store” with a lesser weighting, which would help stories on those topics rise to the top, without excluding stories that don’t mention them. BOSS allows developers to manipulate Yahoo’s search in ways that have previously been impossible, and will likely spawn a number of engines that will truly help today’s search evolve (though most attempts will likely be failures). SearchCloud has a good idea with weighted keywords – if it can effectively harness BOSS and get some meaningful results then it may be on to something.