On 9/14/07, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:05:27AM -0700:
> > > What I really want from a search engine is the "Junk" button from > > Thunderbird which is used to help train your spam filter. When I > > run a search, I want to be able to classify sites as "Junk" so > > that they start dropping in Googlerank for me. > > Bayesian filtering of search results -- now this idea sounds > useful. It puts power in the users' hands, and would make it > /much/ more difficult for any content provider to even /guess/ how > search results are ranked for any given user, regardless of the > choice of search engine. > Yes. I agree with this. It could also be done on the server side ... they after all have your input. In fact I have had this very idea under active discussion for several months now with my Buddy Brad Collins who is deply inot this and the mre general problem of metadata for the web and beyond. Note that to some extent the social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us are starting to provide a mechanism for alternative ratings of sites. This data could easily be gathered by search engines and used as yet another ranking mechanism. Just as a test I tried "sailboats" Google and del.icio.us returned very different results. Google also sugested on try Searches related to: sailboats used sailboats types of sailboats small sailboats catalina sailboats sailboat pictures sailing yachts boats However "diabetes" both returned the same top site. The home page of the American Diabetees Association http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." Through the Looking Glass. Found as top hit in Google. Search string was "alice in wonderland mean what I say it means word" BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
