Yahoo Allows for Personal Spam Filtering - Search Engine Journal

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If you’ve been to Yahoo lately, you may have noticed the “save” and “block” links after certain results.

: “I can see Yahoo using this data to implement Bayesian filtering for personalized web searches. As people continue to block and save sites in My Web, the filter gradually will define what people see as spam or relevant.”

That’s an interesting take - and I can’t see why they wouldn’t use that data for that, among other things.

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