On 2/22/07, Markus Schiltknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Teodor,
Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> byte offset of word is useless for ranking purpose
Why is a word number more meaningful for ranking? Are the first 100
words more important than the rest? That seems as ambiguous as saying
the first 1000 bytes are more important, no?
No, the first X aren't more important, but being able to determine
word proximity is very important for partial phrase matching and
ranking. The closer the words, the "better" the match, all else being
equal.
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Mike Rylander
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