Searching with Experience - A Search Engine for Product Information that Learns from its Users

This paper describes the motivation and development of a new algorithm for ranking web pages. This development aims to enable the implementation of a search engine that can provide highly personalised results to queries. It was initiated by a request from the Dutch CAD industry, but has generic potential for the development of web search engines. The paper describes the algorithm, its position in relation with existing algorithms, and its potential drawbacks and advantages