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What benefit does federation bring here? Unless it is very simple to set up, most communities are non-technical and probably won't be able to set up their own c
by googlryas 4y ago
What benefit does federation bring here? Unless it is very simple to set up, most communities are non-technical and probably won't be able to set up their own crawler. I would think just a search engine that lets you customize the ranking algorithm, and maybe hook into whatever ontology they've developed and ranking it accordingly would be sufficient.
- boyter 4y agoIt can be very simple to setup. Think single binary to run, or lambda to deploy (yes this is possible) with the URL back to it. I imagine a binary, with a simple Admin UI allowing you to crawl some domains recursively would be enough to index your own website, and then have those results shared. Where I could see this being really useful, is let someone who knows everything about pokemon provide the index for searching pokemon information. Then when they federate, provide a taxonomy saying "for queries that have these words, call me". Suddenly you have a very high value search source for pokemon. Throw in some zero click info information boxes and you have added a lot of value.
- viraptor 4y ago> most communities are non-technical and probably won't be able to set up their own crawler They can use a solution which already integrates the search. Forums and CMSes are a good target for that. Then you can say "I'd like my search to look at widgetlovers.com too" - and you get their sitemap + featured external links, because they run FooPress that supports it. Kind of the same as sitemap we already produce for Google.