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by skulk
720 days ago
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> but what's going on here? I'm wondering the same thing. Google gives me _exactly_ what I want without me having to add keywords or cajole it. All of these other search engines give me such weird irrelevant results. If I search "python reverse string" on YaCy's demo peer, the third result is the ArchWiki page on ... MATLAB. I really wish I knew what to do to help the situation here because distributed p2p search engines seem so cool. But then again, Google wouldn't be so dominant if it were so easy. |
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Well, if you really want to know, you could try taking the HTTP responses for the page you expect to be highly ranked, and the page that's actually highly-ranked, and applying various common ranking heuristics to them, to figure out what the result-ranking algorithm is actually doing.
For any search engine who hasn't had a bunch of competitive pressure forcing them to improve, the ranking algorithm is very likely something incredibly simple and standard — e.g. tf-idf across the whole HTTP-result corpus.
So I'd guess that the results you tend to see in your tests, are because one of those "standard" algorithms ends up doing something dumb for the ranking pairs you care about.