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

[Allen Stern]

I've got my review all ready - sure wish ya'all picked 12am eastern 
rather than pacific! You keep me up to 3am!

-- Allen

jer wrote:

> 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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