[Search-l] twin principles, or what brings us together?

[jer]

If I were to imagine my vision of a search utopia, I would see the  
"portal" as being nothing more than a commodity front end.  Of course  
money will be a force wherever there's attention, but when the index  
and all that built it becomes part of the commons that attention can  
be distributed and flow through whatever portal is the most fair.

Jer

On May 7, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Keith Botley wrote:

> Quality not filtered through a profit motive.
>
> Wikia Search is a for profit venture so how will the business model  
> effect
> the search results. For instance Google makes a point to tell us  
> that there
> are sponsored results at the top and right margins but do we really  
> know
> that this is the only case?
>
> If I make a wikia search will I know, without a doubt, that I am  
> seeing the
> most relevant crawled pages that are thoughtfully ranked by the user
> population?
>
> Keith Botley
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>> Nobody yet pointed out a completely glaring omission, the obvious
>> one, and perhaps the most important unifying principle of the  
>> three now:
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>> 	Quality - Significantly improve the relevancy and accuracy of search
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>> results and the searching experience.
>
> Jer
>
> On May 7, 2007, at 1:59 AM, jer wrote:
>
>> One thing I've spent a lot of time trying to summarize is what is it
>> that really brought us together, what defines this effort in the
>> simplest way?
>>
>> Here's what I've come up with so far as my twin principles:
>>
>> 	Transparency - Openness in how the systems and algorithms operate,
>> both in the form of open source licenses and open content + APIs.
>> 	Collaboration - Everyone is able to contribute in some way (as
>> individuals or entire organizations), strong social and community
>> focus.
>>
>> We are a search community built on a shared belief in Transparency
>> and Collaboration... I hope that rings true for everyone else here,
>> it's what I personally believe in as the foundation for a better
>> search.
>>
>> Jer
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