[Sigia-l] Comparing search engines

[donna at maadmob.net]

If only everything were so black and white.

In this case, result sets will not be predictable or non-variable 
because of the inclusion of very different types of thesaurus on each 
search system. The result set will vary considerably because of this.

I was mostly interested in making sure that there wasn't some magic 
technique that I hadn't come across ;) Thank you everyone for your 
responses - I'm going to read them in more detail and figure out a 
plan...

Donna



On 19 Jun 2003 at 12:49, Listera wrote:

If that's the case, your search engine is really
> a front-end for query construction, to a predictable database. Result sets
> returned should be predictable and non-variable.  In this context, what's
> 'best results'? 
> 
> Ziya
> Nullius in Verba