Personalized Search with Biometrics

This post is from from my other blog here

Hello Dave..... what are we searching for this evening?Imagine if you could yell at your search results? Ok, I mean you probably have done that, but what if it actually had an effect? Or what if I was pleased with a set of search results and the search engine used my contentment as a ranking signal for further search refinement? What a cool deal that would be… Sure, it’s late at night and I have an unhealthy addiction with personalization and user engagement signals, but hear me out. Among the endless haystacks in my feed feeder I happened upon an interesting needle relating to a patent that Microsoft has been said to have filed (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece) and could be granted within a year. It is said to be a big brother style software that can remotely monitor galvanic responses. Which could include;heart rate body temperature movement facial expression blood pressure. While...