Burf.com new results Algorithm
I have spent the whole day rewritting a new results algorithm which should produce a better quality results set. This new algorithm queries the indexing serivice which returns 100 results (this grows per page) and then it re-ranks them by rating pages that contain the serch words. It is weighted depending if it finds it in the title, abstract(meta) or URL
This seems to improve the result set alot. The only downfall is as the resultset grows, more valid pages could be added and then these would not be displayed because you are not on the first page. I dont want to increase the resultset base number to over 100 (because of speed) or fix the result set incase people want to see more than 100 results.
You can now see what the engine thinks of your url with the new Beta rank number.
March 21st, 2006 at 8:44 pm
I understand what you are saying about the results not showing everything that you would like and having to limit how many are shown.
Why not find some ways to “rotate” the results? You could either rotate the final list of results, or rotate different parameters of your code so that the results change. If you could then also track what results get clicked on, and then make adjustments based on what people though was important, well you would be in the same league as the “big boys”.
Chris
March 27th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
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