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:
- ongoing · On Search: Backgrounder
- ongoing · On Search: The Users
- ongoing · On Search: Basic Basics
- ongoing · On Search: Precision and Recall
- ongoing · On Search: Intelligence
- ongoing · On Search: Squirmy Words
- ongoing · On Search: UI Archeology
- ongoing · On Search: Stopwords
- ongoing · On Search: Metadata
- ongoing · On Search: I18n
- ongoing · On Search: Result Ranking
- ongoing · On Search: Interfaces
- ongoing · On Search: XML
- ongoing · On Search: Robots
- 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.