[Search-l] Coop - Custom search engine

[Christian Ledermann]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 14:34 +0200, Natanael wrote:
> 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.
> 

right i forgot about the coop!

the 'mini-engine' is owned by a user, a user can define multiple
engines.

a user can assign rights to other users to contribute to the engine.

so there should / could be different levels of cooperation:

private:
only the user and collaborators can view and add links to the engine,
wikia search can use the tags, description , etc to improve the search
results (anonymized), only the user and collaborators can view the
search results and links submitted to the engine (i.e authorization
required) Q: is that useful? if you want something something private
than this might be the wrong place.

public visible:
only the user and collaborators can add links to the engine,
everybody can see the links and use the engine (as opposed to google
where the links are a secret)

public, suggestions welcome:
only the user and collaborators can add links to the engine,
others can add suggestions, which can be approved or discarded by the
owners.

public, open for all:
everybody can contribute, the owners can review delete links.
so the community of collaborators is responsible to eliminate spam.


cheers,
christian