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I love the idea, and I think there is a huge, ignored opportunity here. But relevance is what makes or breaks search engines, and dabbling with a search engine
by shadowmatter 14y ago
I love the idea, and I think there is a huge, ignored opportunity here. But relevance is what makes or breaks search engines, and dabbling with a search engine I made for Joel on Software (like in the example video), I think you should work on tuning your scoring function.
Searching for "about me" (with quotes) returns the "Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby" article at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html first, and http://www.joelonsoftware.com/AboutMe.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/AboutMe.html second. While it's pretty stupid that the "About Joel Spolsky" text is in a <div> tag versus a <hX> tag, maybe you could weight the title more, because likely people will be using Swiftype to search curated corporate sites that are typically less spammy than the general Internet.
Anyway, great job so far, and I'm very excited to see this and where this could lead!