So awhile back I said I thought it might be better to NOT have inbound link text indexed. One of the great things about Search Wikia and Visvo is not we have two comparable indexes to play with. The current Search Wikia index was created without indexing inbound link text while the current Visvo index was create while indexing inbound link text. Here are two comparable queries:

http://re.search.wikia.com/search#pydev

Try this query, notice the results, then click on the Visvo index link on the right hand side and notice results. There are explain links for both. The major difference is inbound link text being indexed.

So I was way wrong before, inbound link text being indexed is essential to web searches. No we just need to find a better way to filter which inbound link text is included and which is not. Right now the first x number of links are included. Any ideas on ways to make that filtering better to know which links to include?

Dennis Kubes

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