Let me qualify this - ad banner rotation is dealt with - I'm looking for something that will use our Nutch engine to serve up relevant links from people who pay for that privilege. We do not want to serve up ad's from someone else's system i.e. the big G or Y, but use our own Nutch search results to serve up relevant paying links that we have sold and maintain. In a simple relational SQL world we would add a flag and another table with the links and scores and look that up and pass back when needed. Problem with that is that we lose the whole multi word scoring capability in Nutch i.e. pizza beer Chicago, should serve up a Chicago pizza ad first and beer ads further down, just like our search results have relevancy (not a great example but you get the idea). Re-writing a scoring engine to do that in SQL seems like a waste when Nutch already does it just fine.
So in a nutshell - we need to do what the big G and Y and other do when serving up key word based sponsor links. My thought - automate the build of a dummy page with the key words bought that would be indexed and served up just like regular crawled and indexed pages, using the scoring to rank them in terms of relevancy and placement - I have not seen any snippets of code to do simple insert/update/delete operations on a Nutch segment or index however.... This is the idea gathering phase - think like a school/college search engine with local paying advertisers - we want to serve those links up to the searchers to help offset the cost of the service and serve up or flag links that rank first because of payment followed by normal search link results.... rp Sean Dean wrote: > I might be totally off base with what your asking to do, but take a look at > this open source project: http://phpadsnew.com/two/. > > Its basically an advertising engine, built on PHP. Integration within any > application is a breeze, and it supports external advertising such as Google > Ads. > > Sean > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: RP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:52:56 AM > Subject: How best to add "sponsored link" support..?? > > > Hi all, > > I've been tasked with looking into this and am not a coder - that said, > Nutch is doing great and the bean counters have asked me to look into > adding sponsored link results and I'm wondering how best to add this. > > It would be nice to utilize the Nutch engine to come up with the pages > versus just doing a lookup on words and results in a flat file but the > key word data could change daily (hourly) and would need to be able to > be hand entered (or automated) as people sign up (re-index is not really > an option). I'm not sure this would fly within the main Nutch segments > and index, but I could see maybe a separate index or possibly adding a > flag to the existing data but I've not seen any easy to use tools to > change/update/insert records into what is already there (yes Luke on the > index but that does not touch the segment data, right?). I don't want > to change existing searched data and I don't see an issue with having > duplicate results (sponsored up top and existing entry down below > somewhere) but it would be more elegant to not have that occur. I also > see issues in a simple flat file look up as a multiple word search is > best handled inside Nutch to "score" the results versus having to do > something similar in the sponsored results. I can see the need to > control the summary text displayed and also pass thru any codes in the > URL which are currently being stripped during the main crawl/index > cycle. I also see issues with seriously customizing the internals as > they would have to be maintained as Nutch itself is updated.... > > If anyone has looked at this and has at least some ideas on how best to > do this let me know. I need to come up with a preliminary estimate > before I can engage and pay the coders to make this happen so if there > are any easy or "best practices" ways on doing this any help/pointers > would be appreciated.... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
