[Sigia-l] Findability

Listera listera at rcn.com
Mon Jan 27 22:43:11 EST 2003


"Karl Fast" wrote:

> Note also that evaluating the effectiveness of retrieval systems is
> a difficult and much-debated topic. You should see the academic
> literature on this. Frightening.

Another way to do that is to rely on millions of people doing billions of
searches on a tool like Google 24/7 and look at the results in the
marketplace. It ought to signal some sort of trend, beyond the walls of
ivory towers, :-)

Best,

Ziya




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