- From: Rob <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 01:45:00 -0500
- To: Doug Sheppard <sirilyan@dlcwest.com>, wlkngowl@unix.asb.com, Bruno Kestemont <bkest@ulb.ac.be>, www-html@w3.org
Doug Sheppard <sirilyan@dlcwest.com> writes: > > Hits that are infrequently followed in response to a particular search > > should be moved down the list. That might also clean up the problem of > > hundreds of copies of the same document or documents in the same set. > > All but the most important of the hits would drop to the bottom of the > > list. > > 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 [..] Annotation by users would presumably allow bogus sites to be flagged. (Keeping users from purposely bombing an engine with innaccurate annotations is another issue, though.) Rob
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