JustheFacts - 5:12 pm on Mar 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Love the concept Kaled, and do believe this is where all engines have to go in the future, although I have trouble buying into the theory that its occuring right now. The metrics required to gauge and continually improve this type of learning algorithm require careful tracking of user behaviour ... after all it is user satisfaction that they need to infer. However, we currently see Google doing very little tracking of this sort, albeit they do some. It also can't be argued that Google would use their toolbar for this type of tracking, since the results would be heavily scewed to internet marketing professionals.

Yahoo on the other hand, does appear to track user behaviour from every search result page. Apparently though, if they are using learning algorithms, they haven't switched it to AUTOPILOT yet.