Adaptive ranking of pages in search results

The next revision of the search engine will include the facility to have prior searches influence the order in which documents are listed in the search results. Over time, those pages selected most often by searchers will be rise in the list. To accomplish this, the search engine will keep track of what people select from the search results list; that is, the links in the search results will go indirect through a Blossom search server. Yahoo! search has done this for many years, and Google started doing it within the past couple of years.

Sound interesting? To enable adaptation to your index, just append /adapt to the search URL in your search forms. The links in the search results will then point back to a search server. To prevent hacking, the URLs are encoded.