[Search-l] Crazy idea for how this could work

[ozk at fibertel.com.ar]

People,
 > Mark Schellhase wrote:
> I have not really been following the development of the search engine 
> until recently. That said, I have an idea.
>
As mark, I wasnt following the dev of the search engine (even more: Im 
the new kid of the block ;-) The mini article is a good idea, yet 
confusing... wont be better to *try* to remplace it with the article of 
the wikipedia positionated at that very same spot? (just the first # 
characters of that article, and then, a direct link to that article) If 
not, we gonna need to face many issues that the wikipedia is already 
dealing with (a.k.a. spammers) Just a thought (maybe u previously argue 
about this, I just came up with that) My (first) two cents. Best 
regards, Gabriel.


PS: I repeat, its an intresting idea, yet I see it as a dangerous 
spammers point (they wont care if we ban'em a domain on domain tasting, 
coz they gonna drop it and they gonna keep selling whatever they sell: I 
imagine that if they have a domain over there for a few hours its gonna 
be enough biz for'em)


> After using the Wikia Search alpha I have concluded that there really 
> must be some sort of automatic not fully handcrafted result. When people 
> come to a search engine they want relevant links, not a small little 
> article. Although these articles can be very helpful if you don't know 
> what something is, or just want a few basic facts, when you want more in 
> depth info as is often the case, you want more then a basic facts 
> article. For instance, say I search for "Hillary Clinton". I probably 
> know that she is a candidate in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, 
> and might even know where she stands on the issues. It is quite likely 
> that what I really want are links to her campaign site, news stories 
> about her, sites for and against her, etc.
> 
> So basically you have to have a list of links for each search, like 
> traditional search engine results have. Where the social part of Search 
> Wikia would come in is showing the mini article if there is one, in an 
> upper frame or something, then below have the more traditional results 
> found by a crawler. But these crawler results would be editable by 
> humans, so non-relevant sites could me manually removed, and missed 
> relevant sites could be added. It might even be possible to have the 
> crawler possess some sort of artificial intelligence system so it could 
> learn from the mistakes it made that were corrected by humans.
> 
> Okay, this may have been totally unclear, against the core principles of 
> the project, already thought of, etc. But it's just an idea.
> 
> I would love to hear some feedback on this.
> --Mark Schellhase
> 
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