Just before Memorial Day Yahoo introduced Yahoo Mindset, which lets you use a slider bar to sort your results anywhere on a scale from “Shopping” to “Researching.”

The whole slider bar thingie works well on Yahoo Shopping, because you can play around with 5 or 6 concepts such as “price” or “brand.” But I don’t think it works well for a general Web search for, say, constitutional law. My initial results, with the slider bar midway between Shopping and Researching, gave me good results — stuff I’d have gotten from a regular Yahoo search — from trusted sites: Legal Information Institute, FindLaw, Washlaw, etc. When I moved the slider all the way to Researching, the top 10 results were top-heavy with directory sites.

Maybe this one needs to bake in the oven for a bit longer …

Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
on May 31, 2005 - 9:37 am

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