On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:48:32AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Tim Sweetman wrote: > > > Well, sort of - search engines find documents to fit certain criteria; > > this tries to find documents similar to other documents. > > Aeguably part of the same problem space though. I don't know where you can > find them anymore [ironically], but when it was just a Stanford research > project, Google had white papers on, among other things, their techniques > for finding & filtering out similar documents from search results.
Here's a wacky idea. Let Google index them. Search google for similar items, restricting the search to your web site. Of course it depends on how google defines similar. It could say *every* joke is similar, since even differnt jokes would have many things in common. -- mike It's tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time, it's tricky
