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Great, so now site owners will set up spiders that execute a search and
click on their sites entry thousands of times a day just to raise their
listing priority... yea, real cool.... Sigh... I guess some people have to
learn the hard way.


Sean Peck
News Index -- The original News Only Search Engine.
http://www.newsindex.com/
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, David Hakala wrote:

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> -- [ From: David Hakala * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
> 
> There's still room for elegantly simple ideas on the Web!
> 
> >From http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/0,2326,201980721-14110,00.html
> 
> Once a search engine
> serves up its results for a particular search
> query, Direct Hit's software keeps track of
> which of those results the user actually
> decides to click on. It then files that
> information away, and the next time
> somebody does the same search, it gives
> that chosen search result a higher
> relevance score, bumping it further up the
> list. Over time, as more and more data
> piles up, Direct Hit only gets better and
> better. Cool.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
>  David Hakala
>  Denver, Colorado USA
>  dhakala@cyberweek.com
>  303-755-6985
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