On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:51 PM, aprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > You are right Dr. Wayne, Joshua has made and excellent proposal, let us try > it first. >
I have read all the posts up to the above. Appreciate all the thoughts. As was mentioned in passing, Google is already web crawling Wikieducator, so if you add that key word, you'll tend to get those links, even without the custom search box and presumably domain-specific result set. In my own daily practice, I don't always go to the WE home page to search WE, am in effect using Google already (or Bing or....). Sometimes the most rewarding compilations of links are hand crafted by scholars with a finely tuned sense of relevance, something search engines can't necessarily match. Wikieducator guidebooks, or guidebooks including Wikieducator pages: I look forward to more of these, however labeled. Having another human show me around, based on first hand experience, is often more satisfying than running a search engine (not that it's either/or). Seems no pressure to decide right away given the engines are already indexing the content. The sphinx thing sounds interesting, dunno how much meta data you'd get, aggregating from searches. Seems like an open environment like this one could experiment with sharing some metadata publicly. I seem to recall some page ranking (based on total hit counts?), not sure what other web stats are on tap. Students / researchers of Wikis get hungry for data, that much I know. Kirby Urner http://wikieducator.org/User:KirbyUrner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
