Are you reranking results with neural nets? I'd like to have a personalised filter + reranker that can sit on top of everything else.
We need to take back control of our feeds. I think the trifecta of user control is - filtering, ranking and UI. Any of them can be used by big corporations in shady ways. Your meta search engine is already a new UI and allowing multiple sources empowers users. But we need more than that, something like customisable neural reranking or recommender systems that serve the users, not the advertisers.
Hrmm, that is some deep feedback. I thought people are really into privacy right now. For personalization I'd need to add registration and profiling and controls you need to click. Would you be into that?
What types of searches are you into? Could you give me some examples to think about, that would be very helpful. Thank you!
I would agree to personalise my filters on your system. The purpose is to stop the flood of junk and spam, to evade the agenda of whoever ranks the feeds.
I am already using such a system for scientific papers search.zeta-alpha.com, they do embedding based ranking and recommendations based on bookmarks and tags. It's 2022, I expect high end neural ranking. I even implemented such systems on my own, I know exactly how hard it is.
For example I searched on your site "Focal Loss", and I get news about "Former Longhorn Poona Ford Shines in Win over Arizona Cardinals". Search "Softmax Activation" and get "How to activate an eSIM on your iPhone". An embedding similarity filter would have rejected that, it's not even in the same ballpark.
Check out now Kagi does it. They give you privacy by not logging queries, but you have an account and pay them. You can tweak your results by creating rules to promote/demote/block different domains.
I’m not sure how I would want results re-ranked for me. Maybe some limited promotion of geographically nearby things?
We need to take back control of our feeds. I think the trifecta of user control is - filtering, ranking and UI. Any of them can be used by big corporations in shady ways. Your meta search engine is already a new UI and allowing multiple sources empowers users. But we need more than that, something like customisable neural reranking or recommender systems that serve the users, not the advertisers.