June 22, 2003

Tim Bray on text search

Tim Bray has started a series of articles about text search, and how it works. Cool. Always been curious about the algorithms behind searching.

And now he's created a Table of Contents himself, which means I don't really have to maintain the list myself...

On Search:


  1. ongoing · On Search: Backgrounder

  2. ongoing · On Search: The Users

  3. ongoing · On Search: Basic Basics

  4. ongoing · On Search: Precision and Recall

  5. ongoing · On Search: Intelligence

  6. ongoing · On Search: Squirmy Words

  7. ongoing · On Search: UI Archeology

  8. ongoing · On Search: Stopwords

  9. ongoing · On Search: Metadata

  10. ongoing · On Search: I18n

  11. ongoing · On Search: Result Ranking

  12. ongoing · On Search: Interfaces

  13. ongoing · On Search: XML

  14. ongoing · On Search: Robots

  15. ongoing · Turn On Search

And related to this, the BBC report surfers impatient with search engines, and give some stats from some recent research which backup Tim's "people only look at one page of results" observations.

Plus, Tim also points us to John Battelle's searchblog.

Posted by Adrian at June 22, 2003 01:03 PM | TrackBack

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