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

[John McCormac]

Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008, John McCormac wrote:
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>Would that require the index to be split into topics? Or is it
>>applying a Web Directory model to a search engine index?
> 
> 
> No, I don't think so. Rather, the index would be the same, except the 
> scoring methods used when you type in a term would be different for 
> each of the teams. 

One potential problem with a team based approach is that there will be an element of cross-over with 
search terms having multiple results across a range of topics. Perhaps a good approach might be a 
large set of good, vertical search engines. A single large index is just playing Google at its own 
game. The key, initially I think, is to find out where the GYM [1] search engines are weak and do a 
better job in those niches.

Regards...jmcc
[1] Google Yahoo Microsoft.
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