[Search-l] Wikia Search as Open Source

[Wojciech Baranowski]

Monday 07 of January 2008 20:43:37 Jimmy Wales napisał(a):
> The idea is to have a community controlling all the editorial functions 
> of search, the functions that are normally done behind closed doors. 
> There will be many things that users can do, publicly, to rate urls, 
> guide the spider, blacklist, whitelist, etc.
> (...)
> The social graph provides a more explicit look at that.  Plus, it's fun. :)

I have a quite different idea, but maybe that's part of what you mean by 
social graph: Let's say that the main editorial activity of users is rating 
the results. Then importance of votes of a specific user is based on how much 
we trust them. And the trust is based on how they vote (rate).

If I'm a registered, regularly rating urls user, I would probably like to know 
how the results were ranked by people I trust (which means those, who have 
been voting similarly to me - no need to know who they are) in the first 
place. If I'm not, all I can get is the ranks given by people trusted by the 
whole community - but even that is a lot, given that I'm an average person.

I find it difficult to explain that in English, hope it's clear enough. I've 
no idea of a specific algo and don't know whether this can be done on such 
huge data. But hey, doesn't that sound fun? :)

Glonik