[LINK] Google Inadequacies [Was Re: Tony and ANU]

[Antony Barry]

On 23/02/2009, at 12:05 PM, Danny Yee wrote:

> But my understanding is that the Panoptic search index is built on
> a per-organisation basis, and has no way of using the information
> provided by external links.  If an "important" (*) web site at
> Harvard links to a web page at Sydney using the anchor text "frog",
> for example, that's information Google has available to weight its
> ranking but Panoptic doesn't.


I have an idea. If you are using a local search engine you could,  
while indexing each page, do a search on google for link:{your page}  
and then make use of what is returned.

Either something as simple as using the number of links  pointing at  
the page to load the relevance ranking or as complicated as  
retrieving the pages linking to your page and using their text to  
weight the relevance of particular words to your page.

A local search engine is not an island when you can find what links  
to each page.

Tony

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