- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:31:11 -0500
- To: "Jonathan Chetwynd" <jonathan@peepo.com>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 01:56 PM 1/3/99 +0000, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >I am looking for and researching search engines that allow one to qualify >the content. > >Interactivity >Whitespace >Filesize >Number of words >Flesch reading ease > >Well these are a few, and you will have your own This is some research I have wanted to do an have not done. Would you be willing to post a web page somewhere with search URLs representing the best you have found? >Why is their not a search engine that uses personal Qualia to refine the >search? I would be inclined to suspect that it is a combination of performance and understanding issues. The kind of query language that you or I might put together could have to be interpreted against each page visited by the spider. That would not be an acceptable performance burden. But if we can demonstrate in an interpretive environment that certain qualia are effective in finding the "good sites" for a given user interface mode, then we can look at how to formulate affordable statistics that could be incorporated in the indexing and would be nearly as effective as the rifle-shot qualia tailored exactly to the user need. The W3C is in the process of organizing a "Web assessment" activity, and the WAI has an opportunity to influence the shape this activity takes. This is of interest at least to the EO group because they want to understand our audience for outreach, and the Evaluation and Repair group because what you are talking about are evaluation techniques. WAI-ER gives you a chance that some of your ideas for "Qualia" may be supported by programming by others. Please consider airing your ideas further in the ER Interest Group. Al
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