The one result search query

Wed, Mar 15, 2006

Simplicity Rules

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?

1 Comments For This Post

  1. Jon Says:

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

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