Personalized Search engine

[smashits]

What is personalized search engine?

What role it plays in Seo process. Please guide.

[MadMax]

I'm honestly not sure what you're referring to. Can you post a link to some info?

[pc]

What is personalized search engine?

What role it plays in Seo process. Please guide.

It goes along those lines:
If only I could block myself from viewing your posts.

[tickler]

What is personalized search engine?
Google |loony|


|couch|


Unless you turn it off

[Maj. Stress]

It goes along those lines:
If only I could block myself from viewing your posts.

user control panel/edit ignore list ;)

[Gyongyos]

Personalized search engines are usually very different than regular search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) because they have very different ranking factors. For example if you do a search engine for adult website you don't have to see non-relevant website in the top results so you spend importance on the content relevancy (you give more importance to the sites containing adult content linking/and linked from adult websites). They are like huge directories because they don't require the webmaster to submit his site and select a category but they still have many results from the topic they're interested in.

Another kind of personalized search engine is "paid to search" search engines, they do pay users for searching and visiting websites in their database. These type of search engines are very rare, they don't have crawl bots and they work nearly like directories. The webmasters pay to submit their website and pay for the traffic they receive from the search engine, user gets paid for searching and visiting the website and the search engine owner earns for building a gate between the advertisers and visitors. ;)