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<A title=aerik@thesylvans.com href="mailto:aerik@thesylvans.com">Aerik
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:51
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Search-l] Wikia
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<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR>On Feb 2, 2008 12:39 PM, Natanael <<A
href="mailto:natanael.l@gmail.com">natanael.l@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>>
Then I guess that you'll search for "buy ecologic car" or something.<BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Feb 2, 2008 8:37 PM, Fred Bauder <<A
href="mailto:fredbaud@fairpoint.net">fredbaud@fairpoint.net</A>>
wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > I will make a more considered response in a
minute, but if I were shopping<BR>> > for an ecologic car the site I
want is the commercial site.<BR>> > <BR>> <BR><BR>Yes, but that
would only work of the commercial site was optimized for that word, or if the
algorithm is smart enough to search on equivalent words and phrases.
"Buy" for example. So, "buy ecologic car" on Google doesn't return
much use for shopping, but I think the path for some human intervention is
pretty short:<BR><BR>
<UL>
<LI>human powered "similar words"
<LI>search results with algorithmically generated keywords AND tags
<LI>and algorithm that matches through the given words, then all similar
words (perhaps in an outward spiral from the central term) against the
ranked results having those keywords and tagwords. </LI></UL><BR>The down side
is the tags (and similar words) are subject to spam, but the project is going
to have to deal with spam no matter what; it's the nature of the
beast.<BR><BR>Aerik<BR><BR>-- <BR><A
href="http://www.wikidweb.com">http://www.wikidweb.com</A> - the Wiki
Directory of the Web<BR><A href="http://tagthis.info">http://tagthis.info</A>
- Hosted Tagging for your website!<BR>
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