A while ago, I had an idea about search. What if a search engine recorded the last hit that you went to off the search results page and used those urls as the most popular results from that page? The theory is that once you find what you’re searching for, you stop searching for it, aka - you don’t go back to the search engine anymore. So, the last link that you click on from the search page should be the one you wanted. If enough people click on the same link, that link should be the most popular and should be at the top of the page.
I wrote two greasemonkey plugins. One that allows a user to submit results to the study and one that queries the study database for results. They can be found here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31639
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/64039
You’ll need to be running firefox and install the greasemonkey plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 first in order to install the above scripts. Once everything’s installed, you’re part of the project!
