yup, im liking whats said below. great minds really do think alike :-)<br><br>regards<br><br>mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2008 7:16 PM, Fred Bauder <<a href="mailto:fredbaud@fairpoint.net">fredbaud@fairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> First off, I'm terrible at using these mailing systems, they confuse me<br>> and therefor I hate them. Anyway, I'm glad Wikia Search has been<br>
> founded. I had an idea just like this (wikipedia-like search engine),<br>> and was thinking of programming it. Instead, I just found this I would<br>> like to add input (my own ideas) to be considered. I thought I'd share<br>
> some of my original ideas, instead of let them go to waste:<br>><br>> + Have a link that you want to have spidered? Do you consider something<br>> to be spam? Flag something for the adult section? And so on.<br>
> + Discussion pages will be available to discuss this stuff, such as if<br>> the site has adult images and should be flagged.<br>> + Link website to a wikipedia entry if one exists.<br>> + Search .mp3's, etc,.<br>
><br>> Good luck.<br>> - Chris<br><br>Chris's ideas seem to assume we would have a way of generating user<br>feedback regarding individual search results. This could be the search<br>namespace (policy pages there would be moved to a new policy namespace).<br>
Each search which produced a hit from a url would automatically generate<br>an entry on the search page for that url which would consist of the page<br>which constituted the hit and what search term was used. To give an<br>
example, if I search for "Kiss" + "band" the top hit today on Google is<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)</a> So on page Search:en.wikipedia.en<br>
an entry would be made: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(band)</a> Hit #1<br>"kiss" + "band". This page would be editable allowing feedback by users<br>
regarding the utility and appropriateness of that result. In addition to<br>verbal comments the result could be rated from -5 to -5, feedback which<br>would affect subsequent search results. Situations like dead links or<br>
redirects to porn sites would could also be reported by clicking on nix<br>link which would then cause the result to not be displayed. In the case of<br>popular sites, the page would be automatically cleared as often as needed,<br>
or perhaps archived.<br><br>Obviously we could generate more pages and entries in this manner than we<br>would want. Perhaps only searches by signed in users would result in<br>generation of these pages. However any user of the service, signed in or<br>
not could view such pages after a search and give feedback on the existing<br>content.<br><br>Fred<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wikia Search mailing list<br><a href="http://alpha.search.wikia.com/" target="_blank">http://alpha.search.wikia.com/</a><br>
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