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The one result search query

March 15, 2006 by Adam DuVander

Recently a friend wanted to show me a neat video he had seen. The problem was he couldn’t find it again. Searching for turntable intersection, he couldn’t find it amongst thousands of results on Google and Yahoo!.

Before giving up, we tried the same search on del.icio.us. One result. The right one.

I’ve never really believed in the utopia of the one result search query before. I’m still not sure if I do, but this certainly impressed me. How long until Yahoo! (who bought del.icio.us in December) incorporates del.icio.us into their search algorithm?

Comments

  1. Jon says

    March 16, 2006 at 10:23 am

    Wow. Cool commercial. I don’t really respect DJs, but that’s beside the point on this one.

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  1. Simplicity Rules » Human-powered Search Needs Computers says:
    August 29, 2007 at 2:16 pm

    […] With the web opening up, human-filtered content will become more available to search engines. Check out the one result search query for an example. […]

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