On Mar 22, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
This looks neat. It would be fun to try to tabulate and analyze the choices that users make at step 5 and then, when you've got a sufficient sample, have an "I'm feeling lucky" button that gives you a search with the fields weighted according to the most commonly selected criteria. (Assuming the indexing in step 2 allows some sort of weighted searching, of course). If it works, this would save users from having to make microchoices before they get the "more like" results.
Yes, exactly, and I have saved your idea for future reference. Thank you.
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