Talk:Search engine
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- Researchers at NEC Research Institute have improved upon Google's patented PageRank technology by using web crawlers to find "communities" of websites. Instead of simply ranking pages, this technology uses an algorithm that follows links on a webpage to find other pages that link back to the first one and so on from page to page. The algorithm "remembers" where it has been and indexes the number of cross-links and relates these into groupings. In this way virtual communities of webpages are found. [1] (http://www.nature.com/nsu/020304/020304-8.html)
This sounds like an ad. Anyone want to extract the good stuff? -- Stephen Gilbert 17:12 Oct 27, 2002 (UTC)
- Done. I NPOVd it. --mav
Why can we have a "list of search engines" but not a list of "open-source search engines" that people keep deleting?
Isn't it just because it's open-source?
- We all love open source. Wikipedia has the exactly same sprit of copyleft, freedom of software as open-source. The reason articles like open-source search engines or list of them keep redirected to here is there is no need to have a sparate article about open-source search engines yet. For the sake of readers, we favor to have an article with the moderate length over having too small articles. Also, wikipedia is not a web directory, which means we don't just list websites. Even throwing some extra information to a list of websites still doesn't make it good because we are writing an encyclopedia meaning we basically prefer proses but not lists. Everyone including me is certainly welcome to discuss open-source engines more in this article.
-- Taku 17:14, Mar 17, 2004 (UTC)
- I was planning to ad two or three paragraphs about underlying math of search engines and their indexing technologies. Do you think this article is a good place? It will be more like CS stuff. Alternatively there is full text search article, which is definitely too small for the topic. What do you think is a better place? Exceeder 21:50, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Google has updated the presentation of its content. Can we have a new screen shot in order to reflect an up-to-date example? Constafrequent, infrequently constant 16:41, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Done. I'm curious why that previous rather rediculous screenshot hadn't been removed earlier. Submitted had chosen a query that returned his userpage on Wikipedia as first hit. Maroux 14:29, 2004 May 12 (UTC)
Open Source & Free software POV
The Open Source/Free Software POV is quite visible. The Open/closed-source opposition is not important enough, from a neutral POV, to be presented in the introduction of this article on search engines. It should be presented near the end. Marc Mongenet 02:12, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)
- Done. - Bevo 19:58, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
Orase "real time search engine"
I have removed the description of Orase. It may well be a useful tool, but it's not a search engine in the usual sense since it doesn't create an index, but spiders in real time. It belongs in some article on search tools, covering Copernic etc. --Macrakis 23:46, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)