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how would you track the user inputs in order to create then rank the results further? via browsers? or...? while I like your idea, I'm not sure if it is feasib

by lingben 12y ago

how would you track the user inputs in order to create then rank the results further? via browsers? or...? while I like your idea, I'm not sure if it is feasible and second, if there is an 'acceptable' method which most people will not object to or try to game. for example, imagine 1000's of mechanical turks being paid cents to click and browse to a specific link in order to fool the algorithm you've set up

grey-area 12y ago
Tracking users and combatting fraud would definitely be an issue (just as it is for google), and you might have to set up trusted rings of users or some sort of web of trust rather than just trusting any user. It'd be interesting to try - tracking would have to be by browser cookie and actions like returning to results or upvoting/downvoting on the results page and you'd have to be very strict about fraud prevention from the start. Perhaps more interesting than a specific ranking algorithm though is the idea of injecting random results into the mix. Perhaps Google has tried all these things already, it wouldn't surprise me and I know they look at user reactions like returning to results/time on page etc, but it'd be nice to see some search engine which is not owned and controlled by a massive corporation like MS, Google or Apple though - is anyone doing something interesting with common crawl?
- walterbell 12y ago
  There's a German metasearch engine funded by an NGO & University, which also funds the Yacy P2P engine: https://www.metager.de/en/ https://www.metager.de/en/ and http://yacy.net http://yacy.net Scholar Ninja is trying to use WebRTC for distributed indexing and searching from a Chrome extension, but there's a Chrome/WebRTC bug which prevents long-running tasks: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-science/ http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...
  - grey-area 12y ago
    Thanks

by lingben 12y ago

grey-area 12y ago

Tracking users and combatting fraud would definitely be an issue (just as it is for google), and you might have to set up trusted rings of users or some sort of web of trust rather than just trusting any user. It'd be interesting to try - tracking would have to be by browser cookie and actions like returning to results or upvoting/downvoting on the results page and you'd have to be very strict about fraud prevention from the start. Perhaps more interesting than a specific ranking algorithm though is the idea of injecting random results into the mix. Perhaps Google has tried all these things already, it wouldn't surprise me and I know they look at user reactions like returning to results/time on page etc, but it'd be nice to see some search engine which is not owned and controlled by a massive corporation like MS, Google or Apple though - is anyone doing something interesting with common crawl?

walterbell 12y ago
There's a German metasearch engine funded by an NGO & University, which also funds the Yacy P2P engine: https://www.metager.de/en/ https://www.metager.de/en/ and http://yacy.net http://yacy.net Scholar Ninja is trying to use WebRTC for distributed indexing and searching from a Chrome extension, but there's a Chrome/WebRTC bug which prevents long-running tasks: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-science/ http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-...
- grey-area 12y ago
  Thanks