[Search-l] What Is Wikia and How Real Is It?

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 8/7/07, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/8/7, peter burden <peter.burden at gmail.com>:
>
> > Then you get a list of all of the sites, of
> > course
> > you've still got to sort the wheat from the chaff. The current debates
> > on this
> > list don't seem to suggest any real answer to this problem other than
> > getting
> > "the community" to look at each one.
>
> My proposed solution would be to have the community look at a subset
> of pages only, and then use clustering technology or something similar
> to get a judgement on the whole set from that.


I read an interesting article somewhere where someone coined the term "fat
belly" to describe the area between the head and the long tail.  I kind of
imagine the community will be effective at looking at and ranking the head
and to a degree the "fat belly", and the true long tail will necessarily be
ranked by algorithms.  Perhaps community generated algorithms, but
algorithms nonetheless.

Aerik

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