Yahoo! late last week released a preview of Yahoo! Mindset, which gives searchers the ability to view search results that are sorted based on their intention, whether commercial or information-based.
Users control an intuitive slider on the interface so they can set the search predisposition to slant toward commercial sites or information sites. Using machine learning for the text classification,
Mindset will attempt to classify the page in the background to classify it the next time the same query is made if a Web page has not already been classified.
--Gavin O'Malley
