On Thu, 18 May 2000, Theodore Hong wrote:
> Oskar Sandberg <md98-osa at nada.kth.se> wrote:
> > I'm guessing you want to see some sort of voting, which might work, but I
> > don't know any search engines that work by having the users vote on the
> > validity of the hits, so it is hard to say exactly...
> 
> Actually, I'd like to see a (web) search engine that rated results based on
> how frequently users clicked through a link after reading the short
> description (correlated to the original query terms as well, of course).  I
> don't know if any do this.

I would like to see one that used session cookies to track whether a users
came back and looked for more hits after trying each one. Not a perfect
correlation to relevance, but sites that contain the stuff that more people are
looking for would lead to fewer returns.

> 
> theo
> 
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