Semantic Void

Yahoo! Research is currently working on a search tool named Yahoo! Mindset which sorts out the search results based on the “intent” rather than just the query revelance. It is utilizes machine learning technology and text classification techniques to clasify results as meant for Shopping or Research. A slider enables us to determine the weightage given to either of the classes (shopping and research) which in turn sorts the results accordingly. More information can be found at Yahoo! Mindset FAQ.

Google finally unvieled the much awaited Google IM “Google Talk“. It is a light weight Jabber based IM which provides features for text messaging and VOIP. As of now you need to log in with your Gmail id and can add only Gmail users to your friends list. You can send Gmail invitations to non Gmail users if you want to invite them over to Google Talk. So MSN and Yahoo beware coz heres another reason to fear the Google.