[Search-l] Which does the figure next to each URL mean?

[jer]

Absolutely, I totally agree and have been thinking about what various  
forms friendly (or serious) competitions along these lines might  
take.  Alas, a lot of groundwork has to be put down first to enable  
such fun experiments, and we're finally seeing that happen :)

Jer

On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:

> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Leia Yeung wrote:
>>> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>>> You can't really review the scoring... it sucks, it totally sucks,
>>>> we are not pretending it does anything other than suck. :)
>>>>
>>>> --Jimbo
>>>
>>> I thought we were trying to "make the internet not suck." :D
>>
>> Heh, that's what we're trying to do yeah.  But today, it sucks. :)
>
> Maybe we* could encourage better scoring by holding competitions to
> encourage the development of some open source teams to come up with
> nifty, innovative scoring techniques?
>
> Since grub is distributed, and I am pretty sure it is the backend, we
> can have various teams compete with a percentage, like each team  
> gets a
> few hundred boxes to play with.
>
> Maybe each team does specialized scoring for certain topics, so  
> that way
> people can go on Wikia search try out various searches and providing
> community feedback to what team's doing the job well.
>
> Now you just need to find an incentive for teams. ;) Like, uh,
> profitable spinoffs on the atlas architecture.
>
> Just spitting out ideas. Long live open source.
>
> - Bryan
>
> * I say we because it seems to be a fairly open project.
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