On 9/14/07, Wade Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:16:58PM -0700, wrote:: > > 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. > > I like the idea of having a server do this, but I'm thinking more > along the lines of a local service for a LAN. If search results > will be aggregated from several sources, I'd rather not have that > be controlled by the search providers. A sort of search proxy that > runs on my LAN appeals to me because I'd have more control over > what gets thrown in the faces of my kids.
Well it does raise an intriquing question. Where do you distribute search? I see no reason for search to be centralized. The net was originally intended to be peer to peer. I see no real reason that it is not improved by returning to those roots. Here is a pretty long list of distributed search engines, a few of which I recognize, most of which I do not. Obviously there ismore than one way to do it. > > In fact I have had this very idea under active discussion for > > several months now with my Buddy Brad Collins who is deeply into > > this and the more 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. > > I've heard del.icio.us mentioned numerous times, but have never > tried it. Seems that if you aggregate results, the rankings of > *any* of the contributing engines could be used that way, > especially if a proxy did that work. I use it for all of my bookmarking now. Less for the social aspects than for the convenience with which I can tag and search my bookmarks. From my point of view the fact that can access it with a standard browser from almost anywhere is just a plus as well. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
