Comments on: Collarity Launches Personalized Results Engine http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: edpudol http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12704 edpudol Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:58:41 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12704 <p>Collarity has a nice intuitive interface better than Google Suggest but the search results are not that impressive. May be they have not yet indexed many websites.</p> <p>Why the heck I can not enter my website? Your captcha does not allow it. strage !!</p> <p><a href="http://www.xb6.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.xb6.org</a></p> Collarity has a nice intuitive interface better than Google Suggest but the search results are not that impressive. May be they have not yet indexed many websites.

Why the heck I can not enter my website? Your captcha does not allow it. strage !!

http://www.xb6.org

]]> By: Roger http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12703 Roger Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:50:18 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12703 <p>I checked Collarity. I did a few searches and found the search engine to be intuitive. The search box looks little more sophisticated than Google Suggest. But I am not impressed with the results. Most results had the search keyword in the title tag. May be it is because they still have to index more sites.</p> I checked Collarity. I did a few searches and found the search engine to be intuitive. The search box looks little more sophisticated than Google Suggest. But I am not impressed with the results. Most results had the search keyword in the title tag. May be it is because they still have to index more sites.

]]> By: Levy Cohen http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12702 Levy Cohen Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:11:32 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12702 <p>I certainly didn't mean to be evasive or dismissive regarding your question above. The issue is that there is no short concise answer to the question, but I'm happy to attempt one.</p> <p>I think your question was, in essence, how Collarity recognizes a "good or right" choice vs. a "bad or wrong" choice when developing a personal relevancy formula for a user.</p> <p>Collarity is a learning process that eventually converges, after a number of samples, to what best fits a registered user's contextual relationship with a given keyword. There are many dimensions of learning (single event, session level, personal history, community membership, and global) that are brought to bear in the process of distilling personal relevance. All of these dimensions audit the process in real-time. They determine what has "fit" in the past but, more importantly, they determine how a user's tastes might be changing over time.</p> <p>It is not so much a "what is right" thing. It is more of a "what is MORE right today" thing - there really is no wrong. Some things are just "more right" statistically over time. The interaction score is based on the confluence of those micro events (all supporting and testing each other), and the system basically "course corrects" with each event.</p> <p>Hope that helps.</p> I certainly didn’t mean to be evasive or dismissive regarding your question above. The issue is that there is no short concise answer to the question, but I’m happy to attempt one.

I think your question was, in essence, how Collarity recognizes a “good or right” choice vs. a “bad or wrong” choice when developing a personal relevancy formula for a user.

Collarity is a learning process that eventually converges, after a number of samples, to what best fits a registered user’s contextual relationship with a given keyword. There are many dimensions of learning (single event, session level, personal history, community membership, and global) that are brought to bear in the process of distilling personal relevance. All of these dimensions audit the process in real-time. They determine what has “fit” in the past but, more importantly, they determine how a user’s tastes might be changing over time.

It is not so much a “what is right” thing. It is more of a “what is MORE right today” thing – there really is no wrong. Some things are just “more right” statistically over time. The interaction score is based on the confluence of those micro events (all supporting and testing each other), and the system basically “course corrects” with each event.

Hope that helps.

]]> By: evalis http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12701 evalis Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:26:31 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12701 <p>I really don't buy this. This is being said for two reasons: PR so everyone knows google is getting focused or to throw off competitors.</p> I really don’t buy this. This is being said for two reasons: PR so everyone knows google is getting focused or to throw off competitors.

]]> By: Rog http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12700 Rog Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:49:34 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/11/collarity_launches_personalized_results_engine.php#comment-12700 <p>It seems pretty confusing and the results weren't that good. I'll stick with Google thanks.</p> It seems pretty confusing and the results weren’t that good. I’ll stick with Google thanks.

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