<div>Definitley interesting.</div>
<div>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.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/09/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Christian Ledermann</b> <<a href="mailto:christian.ledermann@gmail.com">christian.ledermann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all,<br><br>After there have been some discussions about social bookmarking, tagging<br>and sitesearch I liked to add my 2 cents.<br>
<br>pulling all of the above together could evolve in a vertical search<br>engine pretty much like google custom search (cse or google coop).<br><br>short description (for those who do not know cse):<br><br>You may limit the search to predefined sites, add labels (keywords) by<br>
which you may refine your search, add weighs to sites ...<br><br>shortcomings of google coop: if you add more than 3 sites your search<br>results get quaint (i.e they do not really get sorted in the way google<br>scores them but rather randomly - this behaviour is documented somewhere<br>
but hard to find) so it is not really usable. Anyway lots of people use<br>it and are doing work for google categorizing sites and other users<br>cannot even see what sites are used to make up that search engines.<br><br>
another search engine for focused search is <a href="http://opencrawl.de">opencrawl.de</a><br><br>and windows live, rollyo or yahoo offer similar services (with other<br>limitations like max 25 sites)<br><br><br>pros for wikia:<br>
people are selfish so if they see an (immediate) benefit for them they<br>will be much more likely to contribute links, keywords and descriptions.<br><br>to have an up to date index people would be more likely to contribute<br>
indexers for 'their sites'<br><br>pros for users:<br>have a usable search over multiple sites, and of course all the benefits<br>wikia search has.<br><br><br><br>implementation thoughts:<br><br>a user registers a bookmark collections / custom searcher where he can<br>
add tag and organize his bookmarks in categories/ folders.<br><br>have a simple exchange protocol for up/dowloading bookmarks like XBEL<br>(that is why categories/folders come in handy) there are already<br>products for firefox which do this - so no reinventing the wheel.<br>
<br><br>for integration in an external site: javascript and/or opensearch -<br>rss/atom<br><br><br><br>--<br>Best Regards,<br><br>Christian Ledermann<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wikia Search mailing list<br>
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