[Search-l] Coop - Custom search engine

[Natanael]

Definitley interesting.
Maybe "user groups" could be cretaed where a school class could cooperate
and use the same "mini-engine", and then the behaviour of everybody in the
group will affect the results when the others search.


On 23/09/2008, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> After there have been some discussions about social bookmarking, tagging
> and sitesearch I liked to add my 2 cents.
>
> pulling all of the above together could evolve in a vertical search
> engine pretty much like google custom search (cse or google coop).
>
> short description (for those who do not know cse):
>
> You may limit the search to predefined sites, add labels (keywords) by
> which you may refine your search, add weighs to sites ...
>
> shortcomings of google coop: if you add more than 3 sites your search
> results get quaint (i.e they do not really get sorted in the way google
> scores them but rather randomly - this behaviour is documented somewhere
> but hard to find) so it is not really usable. Anyway lots of people use
> it and are doing work for google categorizing sites and other users
> cannot even see what sites are used to make up that search engines.
>
> another search engine for focused search is opencrawl.de
>
> and  windows live, rollyo or yahoo offer similar services (with other
> limitations like max 25 sites)
>
>
> pros for wikia:
> people are selfish so if they see an (immediate) benefit for them they
> will be much more likely to contribute links, keywords and descriptions.
>
> to have an up to date index people would be more likely to contribute
> indexers for 'their sites'
>
> pros for users:
> have a usable search over multiple sites, and of course all the benefits
> wikia search has.
>
>
>
> implementation thoughts:
>
> a user registers a bookmark collections / custom searcher where he can
> add tag and organize his bookmarks in categories/ folders.
>
> have a simple exchange protocol for up/dowloading bookmarks like XBEL
> (that is why categories/folders come in handy) there are already
> products for firefox which do this - so no reinventing the wheel.
>
>
> for integration in an external site: javascript and/or opensearch -
> rss/atom
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Christian Ledermann
>
>
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