Relevance Ranking is Vital!
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Most important pages for a search should be at the top
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Algorithms vary: test with real data & real searches
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Classic algorithm is"TF/IDF"
(Term Frequency / Inverse Document Frequency)
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Vector Space
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Probabalistic
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Search engine should allow admin to juggle the ranking "weights"
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relative importance of title tags
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meta keywords or other special tags
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recent dates
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special paths
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Thunderlizard Web Usability 2000
Seattle, July 21
Avi Rappoport: Search Tools Consulting
www.searchtools.com