The Anti-Thesaurus: Unwords For Web Searches

Posted by timothy on Monday November 19, 2001 @07:17PM from the these-are-not-the-words-you're-looking-for dept.

Nicholas Carroll writes: "In the continual struggle between search engine administrators, index spammers, and the chaos that underlies knowledge classification, we have endless tools for 'increasing relevance' of search returns, ranging from much ballyhooed and misunderstood 'meta keywords,' to complex algorithms that are still far from perfecting artificial intelligence. Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases."

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Proposal won't work: No incentive! by dstone · 2001-11-19 19:32 · Score: 1, Redundant

Proposal: there should be a metadata standard allowing webmasters to manually decrease the relevance of their pages for specific search terms and phrases.

Okay, pretend I'm a webmaster. What's my incentive to have my page show up LESS in anyone's search results?!

If someone didn't want my site, why do I care if they get it? And if someone wants my site, I don't want to take any chance with an "anti-thesaurus" that might end up excluding my site!