Collective usage tracking to improve mobile browsing?

This is an idea that hit me yesterday. Could eye-ball tracking and visitor usage tracking (à la Crazy Egg) be used to help create a clutter free way to browse on mobile phones? Most sites (yes, including this one) are cluttered with if not completely irrelevant, at least somewhat unnecessary information. Ads, sidebars and widgets do not make me happy when browsing on my mobile. The thing however, is that we people are very good at overlooking those portions of the page, and are pretty much trained to zero in on the relevant stuff (just look at this video from Microsoft Research, eye-ball tracking demo starts about halfway through).

The problem with mobile transcoders (like Skweezer, Google and others) is that they try to fit the whole page into the small screen that is our mobile, making finding the good parts though. What if collective usage tracking would be utilized to create a transcoding service that would a bit smarter and leave out the most irrelevant portions (making the decision based on actual usage patterns)? And with a sufficient amount of tracking information, maybe it could be generalized to create an algorithm to analyze pages automatically based on their structure..

Just an idea…


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