[Search-l] Mechanism for Feedback on Search Results, was Re: Wikia Searching

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
To: <search-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 8:16 PM
Subject: [Search-l] Mechanism for Feedback on Search Results,was Re: Wikia 
Searching


>> First off, I'm terrible at using these mailing systems, they confuse me
>> and therefor I hate them. Anyway, I'm glad Wikia Search has been
>> founded. I had an idea just like this (wikipedia-like search engine),
>> and was thinking of programming it. Instead, I just found this I would
>> like to add input (my own ideas) to be considered. I thought I'd share
>> some of my original ideas, instead of let them go to waste:
>>
>> + Have a link that you want to have spidered? Do you consider something
>> to be spam? Flag something for the adult section? And so on.
>> + Discussion pages will be available to discuss this stuff, such as if
>> the site has adult images and should be flagged.
>> + Link website to a wikipedia entry if one exists.
>> + Search .mp3's, etc,.
>>
>> Good luck.
>> - Chris
>
> Chris's ideas seem to assume we would have a way of generating user
> feedback regarding individual search results. This could be the search
> namespace (policy pages there would be moved to a new policy namespace).
> Each search which produced a hit from a url would automatically generate
> an entry on the search page for that url which would consist of the page
> which constituted the hit and what search term was used. To give an
> example, if I search for "Kiss" + "band" the top hit today on Google is
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band) So on page Search:en.wikipedia.en
> an entry would be made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band) Hit #1
> "kiss" + "band". This page would be editable allowing feedback by users
> regarding the utility and appropriateness of that result. In addition to
> verbal comments the result could be rated from -5 to -5, feedback which
> would affect subsequent search results. Situations like dead links or
> redirects to porn sites would could also be reported by clicking on nix
> link which would then cause the result to not be displayed. In the case of
> popular sites, the page would be automatically cleared as often as needed,
> or perhaps archived.
>
> Obviously we could generate more pages and entries in this manner than we
> would want. Perhaps only searches by signed in users would result in
> generation of these pages. However any user of the service, signed in or
> not could view such pages after a search and give feedback on the existing
> content.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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