> How do you plan to combat littering of the search results? Like the way that a > lot of spam pages will attach just about any popular keyword in the meta-data > on the web?
Because a hit on some data's search string won't actually benefit the data unless someone, having retrieved the search string, requests the data. This does raise the issue of how to prevent "stray" search strings which point to deceased data, and I think the answer probably lies in unrequests (if the data is not found an unrequest is sent immediately). Unrequests are actually something else I want to get stuck into, their implementation should be straight-forward. > I'm guessing you want to see some sort of voting, which might work, but I > don't > know any search engines that work by having the users vote on the validity of > the hits, so it is hard to say exactly... Voting is dangerous as it risks censorship by majority, so I think unrequests are a good solution to this, and work sorta like voting. Please say everyone agrees with unrequests? (I like getting consensus opinion on things, but I hope this doesn't result in paralysis as people insist on giving their two cents regardless of whether it slows down implementation). Ian. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
