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

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 06 January 2008, John McCormac wrote:
> One potential problem with a team based approach is that there will
> be an element of cross-over with search terms having multiple results

Yeah, so topic-based approaches might not be a good idea, but that 
doesn't mean that the general approach of having teams drop in scoring 
algorithms wouldn't work.

> 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.

Right, the idea is to exploit the power of niches and teams able to come 
up with innovative ideas for those niches, and if topics aren't how to 
organize those niches, then that's fine. Maybe there's another way to 
expose the set of possible niches to potential teams?

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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