[Search-l] I'm awake too... plus, an idea

[Aerik Sylvan]

Okay, it's 10:01am in Silicon Valley and I'm awake and even reasonably alert
:-)

Here's something I don't know if I've mentioned before:  One thing we could
do to apply the community to improve search results is to constantly rotate
in different algorithms and let users rate the result relevance.  Sure,
maybe Joe Averageuser wouldn't want to have much to do with that, but even a
dedicated core of few hundred power users could quickly create significant
statistics about what algorithms are *actually* working better.  But you'd
never want to stop - constantly take in new ideas about what data to collect
and how to weight it, then collect data about how well the algorithm is
working in real time.  Use the feedback from that to "evolve" the
algorithms.

(Cross-posting this to Brainstorming as well).

Aerik
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