[318] in Information Retrieval
Re: DL98 Trip report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer, in Idaho)
Mon Jul 13 23:51:41 1998
In-Reply-To: <199807131847.OAA10894@ibis>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:51:47 -0600
To: "David R. Karger" <karger@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
From: "Jerome H. Saltzer, in Idaho" <Saltzer@MIT.EDU>
Cc: wdc@MIT.EDU, saurons@MIT.EDU, elibdev@MIT.EDU, cstrdev@MIT.EDU
At 2:47 PM -0400 7/13/98, David R. Karger wrote:
>If you are listing interesting search engines, here's one you should look at:
>
>google.stanford.edu
There are actually quite a number of new search engines beginning to show
up, mostly with the goal of increasing precision, which for the web has
gotten pretty bad with the standard full-text boolean search and simple
queries. There are at least two that are doing clustering by counting
links among pages, so the response you get back on a search for "jaguars"
may be a question about whether you were thinking of cats, cars, football
teams, or a rock group, and the first pages you get back are the ones that
the most other pages pointed to using your term in their button label.
Jerry
