On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 04:49:53PM -0800, Aaron Voisine wrote:
> > The two methods mentioned in David Wentzlaff's (w/Likuo Lin &
> > Alexander Yip) searching paper at
> >
> > http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/~wentzlaf/classes/6.899/project/public/doc/
> >
> > are Enumeration and Summaries. There is also mentioning of
> Lightweight
> > Indirect Files (LIFs) in that paper, but I think the Summaries method
> is a
> > client side implementation of LIFs.
>
> The thing I really don't like is the idea of people picking their own
> keywords. That was tried with HTML meta tags. People who want
> their information viewed (the entire marketing industry) have a vested
> interest in puting in every single popular keyword whether it relates
> to their info or not. This problem is greatly reduced, although not
> eliminated, by searching on the name of the file. Also with user
> defined keywords, you have to concern yourself with plurals and other
> forms of root words. If a document is listed under the keyword "cars"
> and a user searches for "car", they won't find it.
The only real solution to this kind of thing is to allow anyone and
everyone to apply keywords and ratings to stuff, combined with trust
webs and all that stuff. Unfortunately, this might be pretty hard to
implement within the framework of Freenet (especially in this
pre-true-updating age).
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Travis Bemann
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