Steve Bennett wrote:
On 10/26/07, Rolf Lampa <rolf.lampa(a)rilnet.com>
wrote:
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Then our problem basically boils down to: how do we implement the best
search ever, by using human-edited hints?
You actually hint at the solution (or at least at the problem domain)
when saying "using human-edited links". Humans is the problem, or the
potential. Good results can only be achieved if motivating people to
do a good job, and the task must be understood.
This is also the actual reason for why I'm a bit hesitant about the
term "Alias" (since that abstract word doesn't mean much to most
people, it doesn't give them a "guide line" so to speak). We can mean
the same thing with a word, but now I'm talking about the pedagogical
aspect, motivating and explaining the (untended) concept to editors.
In that context Synonyms means something, it means more, it kind of
intuitively gives most people at least some ideas about what kind of
/relevant/ keywords to add to a Synonym list.
And there you go, best possible human edited links requires that
people understand the basic idea, and when it seems meaningful to them
they
# do it
# eagerly
# & properly
:)
Yes. Redirects are painful partially because
they're external. Centralised
management is good.
Perhaps both the traditional Redirects and the "Inline
Aliases/Synonyms" are useful.
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Therefore, in
summary, I suggest Soundex (or modern derivations
thereof, perhaps as part of the search mechanism - entirely automated
though), and the concept of Synonyms to support a wider range of
application than Aliases implies (the term "alias" is rather abstract
and not very meaningful to most people). With an appropriate
You keep bringing up Soundex. I'm not sure how it's useful, other than as a
last ditch resort.
Well, yes, let's drop Soundex for now. Alias/Synonyms is more
interesting and relevant to your original post (except for hinting
about how/why the existing Redirect concept is "saturated" with
phonetic problems, which could have been/can be, solved with less
human effort).
But now for the Alias/Synonyms idea. =)
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa