On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 04:06:14PM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Aaron Voisine wrote:
>
> > The thing I really don't like is the idea of people picking their own
> > keywords. That was tried with HTML meta tags. People who want
> > their information viewed (the entire marketing industry) have a vested
> > interest in puting in every single popular keyword whether it relates
> > to their info or not. This problem is greatly reduced, although not
> > eliminated, by searching on the name of the file.
>
> Yeah. This is also solved by yahoo type indices, where information is
> mediated by the yahoo gods. There have been vote counting proposals to
> address the quality of information placed on Freenet. The Google
> technique of raising a web pages score when a lot of links are referencing
> it is another way of automatic vote counting.
>
> > Also with user defined keywords, you have to concern yourself with
> > plurals and other forms of root words. If a document is listed under
> > the keyword "cars" and a user searches for "car", they won't find it.
>
> Human keyword assignment is labor intensive and error prone, but Humans
> are still very good at generalizing. With a general purpose information
> network like Freenet, there should be many ways to index different types
> of media. For example, an mp3 file is better indexed by cddb lookup and a
> stock quote is better indexed by its ticker symbol. Packaging good
> indexing tools with Freenet is important to it's viability as a
> information resource. The MMK@ key type for map files and associated
> tools for generating them is a prime example of this.
>
Content search engines such as google work quite well for hypertext, and the index
results can be inserted into a date-updated subspace. The only human involvement is
choosing which keywords to ignore. The system should be able to pick up 2-word keys by
itself. Still centralised, but a good start, and searches are truly anonymous. Anyone
working on it?
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