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

[peter burden]

Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> On 4/30/07, *Ed Whittaker* <epicurus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:epicurus at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     ...there would be no reason to select only one algorithm
>     necessarily or evolve only one. You could use *all* your
>     algorithms up to that point and perhaps use the verdicts on each
>     of them to weight the contribution from each algorithm.
>
>
> That is what all the major search engines do these days.  Though 
> everyone has heard of PageRank, HITS/ExpertRank, TrustRank, etc., the 
> elegant published algorithms are just one part of ranking.

I think the idea would be, perhaps, to allow users to select (either 
explicitly or implicitly) their own
combination of weights.
>
> You might want to read:
>
> An interview with Apostolos Gerasoulis (scientist) and Jim Lanzone 
> (VP) of Ask:
>    http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Feb05/apostolos.html 
> <http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Feb05/apostolos.html>
>
> Beyond PageRank, by three Microsoft/MSN researchers:
>    http://www2006.org/programme/files/xhtml/3101/p3101-Richardson.html
>
> Good reading,
>
>            -s
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