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MS Search: Stuff i've seen

During the Faculty Summit Live on the 18th and 19th of July Susan Dumais of the MS research team demonstrated the 'Stuff i've seen' feature currently being developed to enhance personalized search.

Stuff I’ve Seen enhances information discovery with access to previously viewed information. It delivers rich client information by analyzing a computer index, previous queries, Web pages visited, and e-mail received.

This tremendously improves privacy, Dumais said, because the information is stored on the client. The system uses information gathered during the course of normal computing work.

In her demo, Dumais showed a pair of side-by-side search panes with a Web/Personal slider along the top. With the slider all the way to the left, Web side, the results were identical, but when the slider was moved to the right, the results in the right-hand pane became increasingly personalized, based on similarity to desktop search results. The richer the model, the better, Dumais said. We’re trying to tackle the question of improving the search experience for you.

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