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

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark (Markie) 
  To: fredbaud at fairpoint.net ; Mailing list for Search Wikia 
  Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:00 PM
  Subject: Re: [Search-l] Mechanism for Feedback on Search Results,was Re: Wikia Searching


  yup, im liking whats said below. great minds really do think alike :-)

  regards

  mark


  On Feb 2, 2008 7:16 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

    > 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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