On 10/26/07, Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa@rilnet.com wrote:
What doesn't seem very meaningful though is to invent another term (Alias) for essentially the same concept as redirects, especially when the only difference may end up being how, who and when they are created. It is that part I with YARR, yet another redirect system on top of the existing redirect system.
I think I have come to agree with this.
If one want to deal with aliases in essentially a different way than
redirects then I'd rather see something like "Synonyms", which also would be placed at the very start of a text, since it could be very useful both for human reading and for search indexing!
Right. Except I call "synonyms" "aliases" :) The point I think is to get away from manually having to set up "Term X is a hard-link to term Y", and getting towards something softer like "If user searches for something like X, Y or Z , the software will help them find A, if that's what they're really looking for".
If Synonyms are explicitly tagged or marked up (in the article text,
as opposed to Redirects, which are defined outside of the article), then they could be regarded even by the HTML-parser, including them (the synonyms) in the keywords etc. Also the internal Indexer could return these among the results for an entirely different search word!
Yeah, that's a nice advantage I hadn't thought of. With a bit of luck we might even distinguish concepts like "This article is about X" and "This article has a section about Y".
Steve