The Future of Search: Social Relevancy Rank - 0 views
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Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now.
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Here is an idea so obvious that it is surprising Twitter has not implemented it already: front-load search results with people you follow.
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As a next step, search results could rank people you may not be directly following but who are being followed by people you follow.
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And now, as always, please tell us what you think? What would you expect from a search engine with Social Relevancy Rank built in?
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someone who is followed by hundreds of thousands of users is likely more relevant to you than someone you don't know at all.
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Using number of followers as a weight might be a good way to order the rest of the activity stream.
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Social Relevancy Rank will evolve over time to help us make sense of endless streams of activity. This Ranking will have a profound impact on how we tap into our friends' opinions.
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FriendFeed has recently launched a search feature, and so Facebook search must be coming soon. Real-time Web search (of streams of activities) is a hot topic right now. Everyone, including Google and Microsoft, recognizes the value of using trusted contacts as filters. What was once called social search is now called real-time search, but this time it will really happen. First, it will be applied to streams and then to the Web in general. What we are about to get is a Social Relevancy Rank. Whenever you search streams of activity, the results will be ordered not chronologically but by how relevant each is to you based on your social graph. That is, people who matter more to you will bubble up. How does this work? Well, there will be a formula, just as there is a formula for Page Rank.