Yahoo! trials extended search by Renai LeMay, Silicon.com (Jun 29) -- MyWeb 1.0 from Yahoo was a personal search centre of bookmarks, shared folders and saved pages. MyWeb2.0 adds community in a significant way along with tagging and results ranking based on the community.
"Those with a Yahoo! login will be able to bookmark and cache copies of their favourite websites, label them in certain categories and attach comments in a structured way. Users will then be able to search among their contact's knowledge base with what Yahoo! is calling its MyRank search technology."
"Over time, we envision communities using My Web to build their own search engines to capture and make accessible the knowledge of their community," the blog waxed enthusiastically, giving the example of search engines populated by knowledge from groups of medical researchers or a bird-watching club. "
Chris Sherman gives a detailed description in Yahoo Integrates Personal & Social Search with MyWeb 2.0 [Searchday, June 29]
He makes clear that the community aspect is especially important - you need to have one to make this work. "MyWeb 2.0 is currently bi-directional, meaning you need to invite someone to share your web and they need to accept the invitation. Later, Yahoo plans to make MyWeb unidirectional, meaning you can share your personal web and allow anyone to see it."
Posted by Gwen at June 29, 2005 10:00 AM