Comments on: Algorithms + Human Editors = Smarter Search http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Adam Jusko http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5879 Adam Jusko Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:02:12 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5879 Custom search is a neat tool for some, but in general it's just a way to slice the bigger Google engine into a niche of interest or to do a site search, something that Google already offered. But it's still Google, which means it's not really a different animal. What if you want to search a certain selection of sites but Google has cut off the number of pages that are indexed for a certain site? You will only get results that Google has deemed relevant, not a complete search of the site in question. Nice, but not revolutionary. Custom search is a neat tool for some, but in general it's just a way to slice the bigger Google engine into a niche of interest or to do a site search, something that Google already offered. But it's still Google, which means it's not really a different animal. What if you want to search a certain selection of sites but Google has cut off the number of pages that are indexed for a certain site? You will only get results that Google has deemed relevant, not a complete search of the site in question.

Nice, but not revolutionary.

]]> By: SEO Straight Tak http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5878 SEO Straight Tak Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:04:06 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5878 Agreed. Let me clarify. By 2%, i'm referring to the collective sum of google verticals. That said - 0.5% would be phenomenal for all Google vertical search share... Agreed.

Let me clarify. By 2%, i'm referring to the collective sum of google verticals.

That said – 0.5% would be phenomenal for all Google vertical search share…

]]> By: SEO Straight Talk http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5876 SEO Straight Talk Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:57:30 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5876 Algorithms + Human Editors = Spam Alert too... If you give page ranking control to publishers, you give them incentive to place biased results on top of relevant web pages. Watch out for self serving verticals. What's really going to happen? Over the next 6 to 12 months we'll see a handful of Google customized vertical search engines rise to popularity with a search market share capping at about 2% (0.5% would be a huge success). If Google search 2.0 (search user generated content)expands beyond just the small popularity set, you can bet advertisers will be given an option to syndicate ads to selected search engine verticals (or sites) and pay a premium for doing so. Will be interesting. Algorithms + Human Editors = Spam Alert too…

If you give page ranking control to publishers, you give them incentive to place biased results on top of relevant web pages. Watch out for self serving verticals.

What's really going to happen? Over the next 6 to 12 months we'll see a handful of Google customized vertical search engines rise to popularity with a search market share capping at about 2% (0.5% would be a huge success). If Google search 2.0 (search user generated content)expands beyond just the small popularity set, you can bet advertisers will be given an option to syndicate ads to selected search engine verticals (or sites) and pay a premium for doing so.

Will be interesting.

]]> By: Devendra http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5875 Devendra Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:46:38 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5875 its a neat tool - google needs to relax the formatting contraints though; the results look like the adsense for search results e.g. here is a video game search engine I quickly threw together. <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=001708353727224161366%3A3f7458xqnia" rel="nofollow">Video Game Search Engine</a> One thing is for certain, if they make it more flexible it will blow up a lot of vertical search models that vcs have invested in. e.g. Wellington Partners portfolio company <a href="http://de.wazap.com/" rel="nofollow">wazap</a> which is about to launch in English. bet those guys arent happy. its a neat tool – google needs to relax the formatting contraints though; the results look like the adsense for search results e.g.

here is a video game search engine I quickly threw together.

Video Game Search Engine

One thing is for certain, if they make it more flexible it will blow up a lot of vertical search models that vcs have invested in. e.g. Wellington Partners portfolio company

wazap

which is about to launch in English.

bet those guys arent happy.

]]> By: Jeremy Palmer http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5874 Jeremy Palmer Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:29:18 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5874 "Algorithms + Human Editors = Problematic Search. I've seen what happens when you let human editors at it, usually problems." No doubt people will come up with ways to manipulate human edited search results (e.g. Wikipedia/ODP), but people do the same thing to algorithms unabashedly. The same open source community that built the tools you and I use every day could easily collaborate on quality vertical search engine projects. Humans are also better at detecting spam than algos. "Algorithms + Human Editors = Problematic Search. I've seen what happens when you let human editors at it, usually problems."

No doubt people will come up with ways to manipulate human edited search results (e.g. Wikipedia/ODP), but people do the same thing to algorithms unabashedly.

The same open source community that built the tools you and I use every day could easily collaborate on quality vertical search engine projects. Humans are also better at detecting spam than algos.

]]> By: Jeremy Palmer http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5873 Jeremy Palmer Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:15:44 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5873 I screwed up on the nutch link... I just updated it. Here is the correct link: <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/" rel="nofollow">http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/</a> I spell checked, but I forgot to double-check the links. Thanks for letting me know. Best, Jeremy I screwed up on the nutch link… I just updated it. Here is the correct link:

http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/

I spell checked, but I forgot to double-check the links. Thanks for letting me know.

Best,

Jeremy

]]> By: Jonathan (Trust) http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/algorithms-human-editors-smarter-search/#comment-5872 Jonathan (Trust) Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:57:14 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=1304#comment-5872 Nutch? At first look, it looked like a domain parked page and at the bottom says Domain Parking. As far as custom search engines, it gives another toy for webmasters to play with but people will always use the main search engines for their primary searching. Algorithms + Human Editors = Problematic Search. I've seen what happens when you let human editors at it, usually problems. Nutch? At first look, it looked like a domain parked page and at the bottom says Domain Parking.

As far as custom search engines, it gives another toy for webmasters to play with but people will always use the main search engines for their primary searching. Algorithms + Human Editors = Problematic Search. I've seen what happens when you let human editors at it, usually problems.

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