[Search-l] putting my hand up

[Stephan Spencer]

Hi Jer,

Welcome aboard! It's awesome to have you heading things up!

So far I've just been lurking, but I'd like to put my hand up to  
help. I'm not a hard-core programmer, so I won't be able to help in  
that way. But I could help with usability, ideation on features and  
functionality, spam resilience, etc.

A few initial thoughts:

1) I'd suggest supporting the Sitemaps.org protocol.

2) I'd suggest extending Sitemaps to include a set of directives that  
allow the webmaster to specify which parameters in the URL are  
session IDs or otherwise superfluous (like sort order, clickpath for  
the breadcrumb trail, tracking parameters, etc.). This could help  
minimize duplicate pages getting indexed -- a major problem with  
other search engines. And it could be used to help minimize link gain  
(PageRank) dilution effects.

3) I saw some mentions about Swickis recently. It was pointed out  
that some of their technology is "patent-pending". That of course  
limits how Swickis could be used for this project, but still I think  
it would be worthwhile opening up a dialogue with them to see in what  
ways they could play a role. The inventors of the swicki technology,  
Eurekster, are a great company and are very supportive of Wikipedia.

Cheers,
Stephan

Stephan Spencer
Founder & President
Netconcepts

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