Tag : search-results

Hello,
Wikis, like Wikipedia, are a controversial concept - many people like them, but others hate them. The Wikipedia is the biggest and best known wiki, but there are also a lot of other wikis.
So wouldn't it be a nice idea, if you would create a technology, which recognizes if a site is a wiki - the technology should recognize wikis, running with MediaWiki, MoinMoin, TWiki, PmWiki, DokuWiki.
Then, you an add an option to the Advanced search and the personal settings, how wikis should be treated in the search results.
I would use a drop-down-box, with the options:
*Only search wikis
*Prefer wikis
*Handle like other sites (default)
*discriminate wikis
*ignore wikis
You could also put this into the "Refine your search"-box.
(Hope my English is not so bad... please ask if you don't understand ;)
Hope you don't dislike this idea! I think, in this way, the people can choose better, what they are searching for.
Michi

Exalead's result pages are full of Spam, for example: http://www.exalead.com/search?action=search&q=lista+serve...
I suggest a solution: use an automatic bayesian spam-filter based on users' input. You should build a community like dmoz.org with an "anti-spam" proupose, a sort of Spam Cops Squad.
Humans do it better, and they can do it in their mother tongue, because exalead is european, and the spam is not only in english.
sorry for my poor english,
bye.

Often there are homepages witch have some long pages, where there are quite a number of headings and text on it in the form:
------------------(Start of example:)
<anchor1*><heading1>
<Text1
...
...>
<go to top>
<anchor2*><heading2>
<Text2
...
...>
<go to top>
------------------(End of example)
*: not visible
For example see: [german!] http://www.schoenitzer.de/Astronomie.html
So it dosn't help much to come to this site when searching one of the headings, cause you have to yous your browser search then again!
So here's my solution:
Make under the search-results a list (with can be expanded or blind out) listing the anchors with are above of some of the founded positions, and name how many times they are found in the part form this anchor to the next:
------------------(Start of example:)
<Site-Name>
...(the same as now)
- Direct Anchors:
*<anchor1> <NR_0f_search_parse_in_Text1>
*<anchor2> <NR_0f_search_parse_in_Text2>
*<anchor3> <NR_0f_search_parse_in_Text3>
------------------(End of example)
The optimum would be not to show the anchor-name but heading, but that will be just realizables for sites were the anchor and the heading are right side by side...
Should be possible to realize, but that would be a real new and useful feature and would make Exalead be more than "just another search engine" ;)
Hope everyone understand, if you have questions, write a comment - I'll answer!
And of course I hope this feature will be realized...
Michi