Re: AltaVista Testing Paid Search Results
IAN DOUGLAS WROTE:
>My own 'brilliant idea' for solving the search problem is
>to implement a kind of Dewey Decimal Number (DDN)
>system for the web. Each web page could have a meta-tag
>with a DDN in it, indicating the precise topic(s) that the web
>page is about. A suitable engine could then index these and
>allow the resulting database to be searched.
>
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Sounds good! However, here's one more problem to add to the
list that would need to be solved:
Let's say there are 10,000 sites in the "Internet marketing"
category. Even using a *lot* of sub-categories, the search
engine would still have the same old problem: How does it
rank the relevance of all the sites listed?
Humans do the best job of rating sites. To pay humans, the
search engines have to earn lots of money. Perhaps some
combination of paid and unpaid listings is the answer - with
the searcher given a choice of search methods.
Allan Gardyne
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com
Hundreds of revenue sharing programs by subject and A-Z.
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Received on Fri Apr 23 1999 - 16:59:47 CDT
