On Jan 21, 2008 10:33 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
If you think about it, this is the same kind of problem faced by search engines. When you do a search for web pages they give you what we can call, for the sake of this argument, the 'most notable' web pages that contains the words you're looking for, where notability is related by how many web pages link to a page, and how many link to the pages that link to them, and so on.
By the way, this description, as stated, is completely incorrect. http://www.wikipedia.org/ surely has a higher PageRank than http://www.search.com/, and both "contain the word" "search", yet if I put "search" into Google I get the latter.
If you're going to use the term "most notable", then search engines provide the "most notable" result *for that particular search*, not the "most notable" result containing those search terms.