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I'll admit I had not been working on the quality of single term queries as much as I should have lately. However, especially for such simple queries, having a d
by gbmatt 5y ago
I'll admit I had not been working on the quality of single term queries as much as I should have lately. However, especially for such simple queries, having a database of link text (inbound hyperlinks and the associated hypertest) is very, very important. And you don't get the necessary corpus of link text if you have a small index. So in this particular case the index size is, indeed, quite likely a factor.
And thank you for the elaborate breakdown. It is quite useful and very informative, and was nice of you to present.
And I'm not saying that index size is the only obstacle here. I just feel it's the biggest single issue holding Gigablast's quality back. Certainly, there are other quality issues in the algorithm and you might have touched on some there.
- Archelaos 5y agoLet me add just one thought on the single term searches: I do not think that a good search result for such terms as "philosophy" should focus on the primary meaning of the term alone. As someone else had pointed out, the beauty brand can be quite important for some people. If we look at a search engine as a tool that needn't present me with near perfect results from the outset, but something I can have a dialogue with to find something, than it is best that results for single terms presents me with a variety of different special meanings (and probably some useful suggestions how to refine my search). Perhaps you can scrap the Wikipedia disambiguation pages and use it somehow to refine your search results.