Thanks Geoff.
The person configuring htdig provided me with a listing of attribute weightings. Working from this I structured my pages. The output for searches had me puzzled, though, until I discovered the difference between 'keywords_factor' and 'keywords_meta_tag_names'. I had assumed the 'keywords_factor' was related to META information instead of key words in the document text.
Subsequently I've added cloaked terms (text colour=body colour) to the document. This provides satisfactory results but I'm not particularly happy about having to use this work around.
Any suggestions?
.. Mark
| Geoff Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/18/02 07:07 AM
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To: "Mark Gendron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [htdig] Word scores |
> Is there more detailed information on this topic available? What are
> these "varying location factor(s)". Is there some dependence on
> placement with respect to total word count?
Certainly the higher the number of occurrences of a word, the higher
it's score--each word counts in the sum. The "varying location factor"
is simply as described. If the word is the first word, it gets 1000. If
it's the last, it gets 1. Words in between are scaled linearly.
> Also . . . in reading the FAQ I am unable to determine how the percent
> ranking of each hit is calculated. How does this work?
The maximum score for a particular query gets 100%. The other
percentages are simply (score)/(max score) * 100%
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-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
