From: y...@cs.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li) Subject: Internet Rank Engine-the next generation of search engines Date: 1996/10/09 Message-ID: <53gc9d$fih@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188251571 organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science nntp-posting-user: yli newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc I just put up a web site to demo my ideas on search engines. I call it Internet Rank Engine. Unlike a search engine, which tells you the most relevant web sites to your query, a rank engine tells you the Most Popular, Best Quality web sites which are relevant to your query. My engine is located at http://www.ranklink.com/rank I welcome comments.
From: Dan Busarow <d...@beach.net> Subject: Re: Internet Rank Engine-the next generation of search engines Date: 1996/10/10 Message-ID: <325C64D7.167EB0E7@beach.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188375844 sender: use...@news.beach.net (Charlie Root) references: <53gc9d$fih@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: DPC Systems / Beach Net mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc, comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Yanhong Li wrote: > > I just put up a web site to demo my ideas on search engines. > I call it Internet Rank Engine. > > Unlike a search engine, which tells you the most relevant web sites > to your query, a rank engine tells you the Most Popular, Best Quality > web sites which are relevant to your query. The idea's in the right direction, but it needs a little work. For instance, searching for freebsd brings up several very relevant sites with www.freebsd.org on top. Searching for unixware however puts unixware.novell.com on top and this site is dead (since they sold Unix a year ago). unixware.sco.com was about fourth or fifth, and www.freebird.org, which should be number one (IMO) wasn't listed. I think you may be attaching too much weight to a search term ocurring in the URL. Keep us posted. Dan -- Dan Busarow DPC Systems / BeachNet Dana Point, California
From: y...@cs.buffalo.edu (Yanhong Li) Subject: Re: Internet Rank Engine-the next generation of search engines Date: 1996/10/10 Message-ID: <53j2dh$ks0@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188499047 references: <53gc9d$fih@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> <325C64D7.167EB0E7@beach.net> organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science nntp-posting-user: yli newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc In article <325C64D7...@beach.net>, Dan Busarow <d...@beach.net> wrote: > >The idea's in the right direction, but it needs a little work. Sure, I am making changes everyday. >For instance, searching for freebsd brings up several very >relevant sites with www.freebsd.org on top. Searching for unixware >however puts unixware.novell.com on top and this site is dead (since >they sold Unix a year ago). unixware.sco.com was about fourth or >fifth, and www.freebird.org, which should be number one (IMO) >wasn't listed. Did you compare the results with what you get from Alta Vista, Lycos? My first goal is to beat them in terms of search quality. the unixware.novell.com site is still live -- it just belongs to SCO now. And they are still popular. www.freebird.org could be a good site, but even themselves claim their home page is only visited 5500 times up to now -- I can hardly say they are popular. Thanks for your opinion, as always, I encourage people visit my site and give me feedback. Yanhong Li http://www.ranklink.com/rank/ Internet Rank Engine Our Exclusive Ranking of Where You Need To Be