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

[Jordi]

I guess that most mini-articles will include a link to the wikipedia
equivalent.
But both concepts mix gracefully together, mini-articles are not a
replacement.

About the spamming. You can have the same worries about Wikipedia. It has
not become a spamming place as well as wikia won't become one.



On Jan 8, 2008 2:13 PM, ozk at fibertel.com.ar <ozk at fibertel.com.ar> wrote:

> 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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Jordi Polo Carres
Natural language processing laboratory
NAIST
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