Comments on: Bravo… http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bravo Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: John Battelle http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24910 John Battelle Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:51:21 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24910 <p>Gary keeps the discussion going on this topic <a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_02_01_resourceshelf_archive.html#107757536640476988" rel="nofollow">here</a>...</p> Gary keeps the discussion going on this topic here…

]]> By: Jamie Lawrence http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24909 Jamie Lawrence Tue, 24 Feb 2004 04:39:03 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24909 <p>What Alex said, but further: if I have a sets of saved values for search weighting (off the top of my head, say settings for general news, technology news, code, humor and individual people), there is a serious fragmentation of targets for which to optimize. People can happily share 'search profiles'. Mine will likely be weighted differently than a lot of other people's. There is strength in genetic diversity, even when what you're talking about isn't strictly genetic.</p> <p>It is also different than RSS, which is a natural sounding analogue, but that is the topic for a different rant.</p> <p>-j</p> What Alex said, but further: if I have a sets of saved values for search weighting (off the top of my head, say settings for general news, technology news, code, humor and individual people), there is a serious fragmentation of targets for which to optimize. People can happily share ‘search profiles’. Mine will likely be weighted differently than a lot of other people’s. There is strength in genetic diversity, even when what you’re talking about isn’t strictly genetic.

It is also different than RSS, which is a natural sounding analogue, but that is the topic for a different rant.

-j

]]> By: Alex Moskalyuk http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24908 Alex Moskalyuk Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:24:07 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24908 <p>It's not really problematic from spam standpoint. If access to certain variety of variables can be controlled, and moreover, can be saved and retrieved, it would allow for greater modifications by people who know what they're doing.</p> <p>For example, you would be able to download the settings file that your friend created, that would give additional boost to magazine articles, media sites and research publications. With proliferation of such settings files you'd be able to choose the ones that are the most useful for you.<br /> </p> It’s not really problematic from spam standpoint. If access to certain variety of variables can be controlled, and moreover, can be saved and retrieved, it would allow for greater modifications by people who know what they’re doing.

For example, you would be able to download the settings file that your friend created, that would give additional boost to magazine articles, media sites and research publications. With proliferation of such settings files you’d be able to choose the ones that are the most useful for you.

]]> By: Doug Cutting http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24907 Doug Cutting Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:01:34 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24907 <p>This kind of thing could arguably help fight spam, as there would not longer be a single formula to optimize against, but rather a family of formulae. Developing pages which score highly against all parameter variations should be more difficult.<br /> </p> This kind of thing could arguably help fight spam, as there would not longer be a single formula to optimize against, but rather a family of formulae. Developing pages which score highly against all parameter variations should be more difficult.

]]> By: Frank Ruscica http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24906 Frank Ruscica Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:42:07 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/02/bravo.php#comment-24906 <p>The prototype for this is Yuntis, 3 years in development at Stony Brook University.</p> <p>Here is the demo:</p> <p><a href="http://yuntis.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://yuntis.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/</a></p> <p>The site indicates that source code is available through a BSD-style license, but the download link is disabled. (You can try maxim@cs.stonybrook.edu for clarification.) </p> <p>Combined with Nutch, should comprise a solid base for the Linux-ization of basic text search.</p> <p><br /> </p> The prototype for this is Yuntis, 3 years in development at Stony Brook University.

Here is the demo:

http://yuntis.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/

The site indicates that source code is available through a BSD-style license, but the download link is disabled. (You can try maxim@cs.stonybrook.edu for clarification.)

Combined with Nutch, should comprise a solid base for the Linux-ization of basic text search.

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