[Search-l] Wikia Searching

[Aerik Sylvan]

On Feb 2, 2008 12:39 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then I guess that you'll search for "buy ecologic car" or something.
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> On Feb 2, 2008 8:37 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
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> > I will make a more considered response in a minute, but if I were
shopping
> > for an ecologic car the site I want is the commercial site.
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Yes, but that would only work of the commercial site was optimized for that
word, or if the algorithm is smart enough to search on equivalent words and
phrases.  "Buy" for example.  So, "buy ecologic car" on Google doesn't
return much use for shopping, but I think the path for some human
intervention is pretty short:


   - human powered "similar words"
   - search results with algorithmically generated keywords AND tags
   - and algorithm that matches through the given words, then all similar
   words (perhaps in an outward spiral from the central term) against the
   ranked results having those keywords and tagwords.


The down side is the tags (and similar words) are subject to spam, but the
project is going to have to deal with spam no matter what; it's the nature
of the beast.

Aerik

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