- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:17:15 -0400
- To: Doug Sheppard <sirilyan@dlcwest.com>
- CC: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com, Bruno Kestemont <bkest@ulb.ac.be>, www-html@w3.org
Doug Sheppard wrote: > All but the least-viewed documents, which is not the same as "most > important". If the 50th hit for a certain keyword set is the one that > the user is looking for, but the first ten hits are all bogus, the > clickthroughs on the first ten hits will still register with the > engine. This might create a feedback loop where the user, knowing that > these top hits are the "most important", will go to them, and not see > they're bogus until they've already helped reinforce their importance. When I say bogus I mean "XXX SUPER HOT BABES XXX", binary files, hundreds of hits in the same document, many copies of the same document spread around etc. I can usually tell a bogus hit from a good one by the listing. If I could merely have the obviously bogus ones removed from the listing then that would make some searches MUCH easier. Paul Prescod
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