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RE: When Searching With Google

• To: 'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <elharo@m...>
• Subject: RE: When Searching With Google
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:22:59 -0600
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

By knowing precisely what the service returns given 
knowledge of how it searches, what it searches, what 
it excludes, how and by whom. Does it return 
raw results or is it ranking?  Is it locale-centric? 
Does it enable adaptive visualization systems?  Is 
it directory based or indexing engine based?  Does 
it have an upper level ontology or is the ontology 
configurable by the client?
 
Is the service free of political filtering or if 
it does politically filter, how and with what checks, 
are these biases public or private?

The Open Directory Project has guidelines for inclusion 
and exclusion.  That's an interesting case since it 
makes the claim that most of the major search engines 
use its product.   That is a human editing system. 
Is it ever affected by local conditions and how does 
one know?

Good question, Rusty.  If our perceptions of right, 
wrong, applicable, inapplicable, popular, unpopular, 
and all the other polarities are being shaped by 
these search engines, we need to understand their 
policies.  If we are to build services over them, 
think report generator, we need to understand them 
even more deeply.

len 


From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...]

At 9:30 AM -0600 12/8/03, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

>Amplified acceptance of unverified assumptions
>is the very essence of robot wisdom.  I am
>wondering about the viability of subscription
>search engines that contract for the quality
>of their results.

But how could you measure that quality to tell whether the contract was met?

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