[freenet-devl] freegle.com: major overhaul -> NeuroGrid

[Sam Joseph]

As a digest subscriber I'm not sure how I can make this link into the thread structure, but since this is a slight shift in topic, I thought what the hell ... I used Freegle and I'm confused as to why everything should get associated with porn. Like I just did a search for "Douglas" and got back four audio files related to Douglas Adams - no porn there. Perhaps what you guys mean is that of the files available for searching, most of it is porn? The general problem with indexes is that people spam them by associating all sorts of irrelevant keywords with the content they want to promote. The only way around this that doesn't involve lots of filtering work is to have some kind of process that tries to monitor what users think about associations, and then modify the relationships between keywords and files to reflect that. So for example, if lots of people are associating the word "Douglas" with their porn files and the people who search for the word "Douglas" don't download the porn, then the associations weaken and fall away - leaving the people who search for something related to "Douglas" free to find the things that are (by the group) believed to be associated with the concept "Douglas". I'm not clear about how Freegle works out which keywords to associate with the keys (looked in the FAQ and about Freegle, but no joy), but the scheme I describe above is implemented in aggregate by DirectHit.com and in a personalized manner by NeuroGrid.com (my own offering). The NeuroGrid keyword-file association tracking mechanism is already being implemented in a couple of other P2P systems. On another note, if you want to have a porn filter, who decides what is porn and what is not? CHEERS> SAM http://www.neurogrid.com _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl