On 1/14/06, joshua schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, ordering is something that is definitely on the todo list. > > The problem with combining orderings seems challenging, though. Some > per bookmark ranking inferred by the order and then reimposed in > different listings? I dunno. >
You need some way to break cycles to get a partial order for the global ranking. This might be helpful: Aggregation of Rankings in Figure Skating http://www.wallis.rochester.edu/william04/Skating.pdf Of course, you can weigh users differently when deciding on how to break cycles. Amir > Joshua > > On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Amir Michail wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I think it might be useful to allow users to reorder their bookmarks, > > just as they can do in their browser. > > > > However, to take things further, why not allow users to reorder their > > bookmarks based on queries? > > > > For example, although clicking on the tag "search" shows me my > > bookmarks tagged with search, it would be good if I could also reorder > > those bookmarks with respect to that tag. > > > > In this way, users can get their own "perfect" rankings for queries. > > > > Moreover, if the system keeps track of these reorderings, it can > > construct a partial order of urls for each query. (Note that if you > > do not explicitly reorder any bookmarks, then there are no reorderings > > for the system to consider.) > > > > These partial orders can then be combined to produce better rankings > > for a global search. Although such rankings will no longer be perfect > > for users, they might be quite good anyway. > > > > Amir > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > -- > joshua schachter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
