Re: [Archive-access-discuss] Ranking search results ?

[<kau...@cs...>]

Hi and thanks for the addition to faq.

Many news sites have a structure which may distort ranking of search
results. On these sites each page focuses on one current news item but
it also has loads of tiny links to other news, like 'other top
stories' , 'news of previous day'  or 'stories of this week'.

In an indexed archive, you could search for 'earth quake' and find
close  to top search results a page with headline 'cricket results'.=20
Reason being that the cricket page has one link to earth quake news of
previous day.

This feature is noticeable when there are few pages with real earth quake
reports  but lots of other pages having links to them.

Link texts should have a low priority in indexing .. probably I can make
this happen when I find the correct parameters.

kaisa

On 11/2/2005, "stack" <st...@ar...> wrote:
> It should be doing this for you Kaisa.  In general, are you not seeing
> the most significant links showing first in results?