On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ed Whittaker</b> <<a href="mailto:epicurus@gmail.com">epicurus@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
...there would be no reason to select only one algorithm necessarily or evolve only one. You could use *all* your algorithms up to that point and perhaps use the verdicts on each of them to weight the contribution from each algorithm.
<br></blockquote></div><br>That is what all the major search engines do these days. Though everyone has heard of PageRank, HITS/ExpertRank, TrustRank, etc., the elegant published algorithms are just one part of ranking.
<br><br>You might want to read:<br><br>An interview with Apostolos Gerasoulis (scientist) and Jim Lanzone (VP) of Ask:<br> <a href="http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Feb05/apostolos.html">http://www.e-marketing-news.co.uk/Feb05/apostolos.html
</a><br><br>Beyond PageRank, by three Microsoft/MSN researchers:<br> <a href="http://www2006.org/programme/files/xhtml/3101/p3101-Richardson.html">http://www2006.org/programme/files/xhtml/3101/p3101-Richardson.html</a><br>
<br>Good reading,<br><br> -s<br><br>