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This program would be designed to tag and store "learn" the url of a web page that has been viewed and as an option "keep" the page from returning... in search results... ever again. (unless disabled)
I have been searching for so many things for the longest time and I wish I could filter out the pages
I have looked thru... ignore them "automatically" and maybe find what is "new" and maybe what I am actually looking for...
The search "advanced preferences" features in the top 10 search engines just dont cut it...
sound like a good idea...?
http://scholar.google.com/
New google search engine for academic / technical papers. Surprisingly good, I thought. [jutta, Dec 05 2004]
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Perhaps if it also ranked sites by accuracy and not how many sites linked to an url (any with an *.edu get plus 1, any well known like bartlett's, wikipedia, halfbakery +10) with customizable search groups (search for "War" in Fact, Humor, News, History, Science....) |
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1) It's tough to make users do something for each result. If you read a lot, you're probably fast; and just having to toggle a checkbox for the things you want/don't want gets annoying, with a fairly high penality for false deletion (you stop finding the thing you knew was there) and a high incidence of
justified deletion (most of the results are crap). |
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2) If you get a lot of junk, there may be other, faster things you can do to improve your search result quality in general. I don't mean knowing the latest keyword: prefixes; more things like picking up keywords from the contexts you mean, and suppressing some from contexts you don't mean, and narrowing things down conceptually that way. |
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That said, yes, absolutely, "I have seen this page before" or "I've been to this site a lot" would make for a great search criterion - both for inclusion and for exclusion. |
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Seems to me you'd accomplish what you're suggesting with a [-] library, that would act a "standing filter" for your ongoing searches. You'd have to decide at some point that you'll never have use of, say, "muscle spasms" as a reference statement in current or planned reference work and you would add "muscle spasms" to the [-] library. You would thereby evolve a list of words and phrases of the form -"muscle spasms" that your search engine would call as a ubiquitous filter. |
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