The Anti-Thesaurus: Unwords For Web Searches 148
Nicholas Carroll writes: "In the continual struggle between search engine administrators, index spammers, and the chaos that underlies knowledge classification, we have endless tools for 'increasing relevance' of search returns, ranging from much ballyhooed and misunderstood 'meta keywords,' to complex algorithms that are still far from perfecting artificial intelligence. Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases."
Sounds Good But... (Score:3, Insightful)
How about this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Hell, an engine that did that would almost be useful.
mod_rewrite is your friend (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Sounds Good But... (Score:2, Insightful)
I can see it now... (Score:2, Insightful)
This proposal will not make the indexing of sites more reliable. If anything it will add to the common confusion associated with meta keywords. Yes it is quite a nice idea in theory but I can't see anyone wanting to exclude words from being searched. The main point in the proposal was that the author felt guilty about pulling in people who had entered search terms that appeared on his page. One would ask why he is publishing information on the internet if he doesn't want people to look at it. A better solution would be to get people to use search engines properly. As an example I will use the stalking on the internet term. If people put these words into google and come up with his page then prehaps they should have modified their query to something like "stalking on the internet" and they may not have found his page. On the other hand if his page contains the phrase "stalking on the internet" it migh be just what the seaker was looking for.
To this proposal I say nay. or prehaps oink.
Re:Sounds Good But... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The Semantic Web (Score:3, Insightful)
Indeed, but how close are they from achieving anything of significance? Ai has been working on a Universal Onthohology for ages and gotten nowhere.
The fact that Berners-Lee agree that it would be a "cool thing to have" does not make it any more likely to happen (by the way, TB-L first proposed the semantic web almost five years ago).
This is backwards (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:That's not going to help bandwidth (Score:3, Insightful)