[pmwiki-users] yet another documentation suggestion ...

George J. De Bruin gdb at soundchasers.com
Sun Aug 7 16:52:18 CDT 2005


> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 05:20:40PM +0200,
Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> > Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > There are a lot of heuristics applied in that
area. After all, since the 
> > search algorithm cannot really rate relevance,
it has to guess it.
> > 
> > I can think of the following heuristics:
> > [...]
> > How to weigh them against each other, I don't
know. We could ask Google, 
> > but I suspect that this is the #1 trade secret
of the company :-)
> 
> I'm more interested in knowing what heuristics
other (open source and
> simple) search engines might use, rather than
trying to come up with
> our own weighting or heuristics.  For example,
if someone could point me
> to a page that describes the htdig or swish-e
heuristic, I might be
> able to duplicate or approximate it in PmWiki
without too much effort.

That would be really neat, as I considered
integrating swish-e into my site at one point. :)

// George




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