X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0129D9DC87A for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:49:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14768-02 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:49:15 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from ra.sai.msu.su (ra.sai.msu.su [158.250.29.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745979DC81F for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:49:03 -0400 (AST) Received: from ra (ra [158.250.29.2]) by ra.sai.msu.su (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2PKn01s007317; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:49:00 +0300 (MSK) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:49:00 +0300 (MSK) From: Oleg Bartunov X-X-Sender: megera@ra.sai.msu.su To: Dave Page cc: jd@commandprompt.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: search.postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <00df01c65038$28a09415$6a01a8c0@valehousing.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <00df01c65038$28a09415$6a01a8c0@valehousing.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.949 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.527, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.479, URI_NOVOWEL=0.997] X-Spam-Score: 0.949 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200603/141 X-Sequence-Number: 9731 I don't understand all this thread. Manual intervention brings to nothing all search engine ranking and usually produce very bad results. Is't possible to use citations ? Also, is't possible to group results by sites ? This could soften effect of incorrect ranking. At www.pgsql.ru/db/pgsearch we have no manual weight correction and trust authors of web pages. Oleg On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Dave Page wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Joshua D. Drake" > Sent: 25/03/06 16:53:27 > To: "Tom Lane" > Cc: "PostgreSQL WWW" > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] search.postgresql.org > >> It seems to me that archives should be secondly only to >> www.postgresql.org. > > I disagree - the web search is intended to favour factual sites over the archives which may contain incorrect info. If you want to search the archives only you still can. > >> Once the new techdocs is live and we get some solid >> content on there, then we can push that up. > > That is on www so will have the same rating. > > /D > > -----Unmodified Original Message----- > >> Um, what other resources are rated higher? If you'll pardon my >> ignorance, what other resources is the search engine considering at all? > > Below is the weights. As John said earlier they just decide who's links > show up first. > > It seems to me that archives should be secondly only to > www.postgresql.org. Once the new techdocs is live and we get some solid > content on there, then we can push that up. > > Thoughts? > > > > SiteWeight http://www.postgresql.org/ 100 > SiteWeight http://advocacy.postgresql.org/ 100 > SiteWeight http://jdbc.postgresql.org/ 100 > SiteWeight http://developer.postgresql.org/ 100 > > # Authoritiative project site > SiteWeight http://gborg.postgresql.org/ 75 > SiteWeight http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/ 75 > SiteWeight http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ 75 > SiteWeight http://pgfoundry.org/ 75 > > # User contributed stuff > SiteWeight http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ 50 > SiteWeight http://archives.postgresql.org/ 50 > > # Outside but reliable > SiteWeight http://www.varlena.com/ 25 > > # And the rest... > SiteWeight http://www.postgresql.cl/ 0 > SiteWeight http://postgresql.ok.cz/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.postgresql.jp/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.postgresqlfr.org/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.linuxshare.ru/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.postgres.de/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.pgsqldb.org/ 0 > SiteWeight http://www.postgresql.org.br/ 0 > > > > > Regards, Oleg _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83