Roman Rokytskyy wrote:

>>... The page ranking is a second score that attempts
>>to weight the results with regard to what other sites thought
>>useful...
>>
>>
>
>Which happens to be the hand-made ranking (even by a vast number of
>hands) :)
>

Absolutely. But is there a database analog?

>And you can change the weight depending on the place where you have
>found catch words (for example, headline match would get more weight
>than content match).
>
>

Unnecessary, at least in this case. Since the headline is shorter, any
word in the headline
with carry a higher weight than any word in the body farther back that
the number of words
in the headline. But keep thinking. There may be other cases.

>I think separate test is needed, if we can get pretty good
>selectiveness/relevance of database indexing by using only lexical
>information. From my experience of integrating ht://dig with
>CoreMedia content management system, you can get good results without
>using references between documents.
>
>

Are you looking for a solution to a problem or do you have a solution
looking for a problem?

And what has this to do with XML? Surely we can't have a discussion of
database semantics
without a reference to XML?!!!


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