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Yahoo Launches Sorting Tool For Search Results

Yahoo Inc. has released in beta a tool that sorts search results according to whether they are commercial or more informational, such as from academic or research-oriented sources.

Mindset appears as a slider on the top of Yahoo search results. The midpoint of the slider is the default setting that shows the order of results matching Yahoo's normal listing.

Called Mindset, the tool is available through the Yahoo Research Labs site Yahoo Next.

Machine learning is used in Mindset to score search results on a continuous scale ranging from "very commercial" to "very non-commercial," officials with the Sunnyvale, Calif., entertainment portal said.

The new tool can be tried on Yahoo, and does not require downloading software.

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