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 You are enormously helpful, Irene. Thank you. It is as if in order to provide transparency, a necessary condition for a reliable web service, the search systems should adopt and publish a deontic modal logic model for their filters, and a means via the web service to parameterize the terms of that. Again, not pounding on Google, but pointing out some issues: 1. The simplicity of the interface makes the service attractive. The tradeoff for simplicity is to provide a complex filtering process that ensures as best as possible that for ANY term or combination of terms entered, the most important or likely URI is returned at the top of a candidate list. Google is making an educated guess and that works for this interface. 2. A web service does not need a human interface. It may have different requirements which may include removing the filters or guessing process or the ability to adjust these. One may wish to include not just web pages, but email and other sources. Given media convergence, this becomes an ever tougher problem. Because humans do the category work for sources such as ODP, one may wish to include or exclude their work because such categorizations are arguable. 3. Because a service might work differently, it may support a subscribable process. This could include clients that are value-adding by providing not the simplest interface, but an adaptive interface. It is the difference between a television with a channel knob, a volume knob and an on/off button and a multisystem handheld control unit for an entertainment system. Learning curve vs local control. We really don't know how the market would react. The best analogy I have is the emergence of cable television. Many of the same claims were made. Yet, the market eventually subscribed overwhelmingly given more freedom of choice, more choices, and fewer filters on the content provided. The yang of that yin is that now some want MORE filters on the content but that is a cultural and temporal bias. It is possible that a 'democratic or republican' system is not wanted, but one in which local choice rules. For a web service, then the notion of a modal logic for agents that use the resources could be pertinent. len From: Irene Polikoff [mailto:Irene@t...] Phrase selling (or rather key words selling, also known as AddWords) has no effect on page rank in the search results. It just determines which adds get served for which types of searches. People who place the add, select the search key words for which they want to have their add displayed. Google has an interesting policy regarding the adds - if not enough people click on an add, they will stop serving it deciding that it is not relevant to the topics associated with it. Open Directory is used in Google Directory as explained at http://www.google.com/dirhelp.html "Important" vote basically mean that if you have a site about fly fishing, a link from another fishing site counts a bit more than a link from a site on XML. Here is another interesting place to get some information on what Google is up to http://google.blogspace.com/ including a link to Google Labs http://labs.google.com/ Hope this helps, 
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