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Google Patents Search Algorithm
blastedtokyo writes "Google gets the first web search patent. According to this News.com.com article, Google was able to patent how they crawl and rank web pages. They claim "an improved search engine that refines a document's relevance score based on interconnectivity of the document within a set of relevant documents.""
FEEL THAT?!
two kids and a bitchy wife... what more can i say
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exoticleatherwear.com !
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - star of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood and community advocate Fred Rodgers was found dead in his Pittsburgh home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his television show, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Why bother.
I don't think anyone will argue that Slashdot moderation is good. Better than nothing? Yeah, sure. I use the higher numbers to filter out the the best comments. That works somewhat, but not well.
I guess the purpose of moderation is in question. My childish gut reaction is a reward system. Good post, here's a karma point, or "kudos". Bad post, shame on you, here's a slap. I think that would explain the general tendencies. However, when I actually *read* article comments, I use the moderation totals to weed out the best comments, unless I want to read what everyone has to say. IIRC, that was Taco's original intention.
The most disturbing thing for me is the ratio of comments in each number. +2 are for people with a quickie mod. Mods happen a lot, and many comments will be modded. Does half sound good? +3 is already pushing it, this is a double mod. In other words, a serious comment. Whatever the ratio of +2 to +1, +3 should be even less in relation to +2. +4 should be the same, and +5, the ultimate mod, should have next to nothing in it.
For a quick example, I'll check the hof for the most popular story, comment-wise. Currently. that is What's Keeping You On Windows? with a total of 3212 comments.
Here's the breakdown excluding -1.
# AMT Twd Lwd Per Lwdp
0: 3161 0000 0000 00.0 00.0
1: 2268 0893 0893 71.7 28.7
2: 0919 2242 1349 29.0 43.4
3: 0144 3017 0775 04.5 24.9
4: 0074 3087 0070 02.3 02.2
5: 0059 3102 0015 01.8 00.4
# - Moderation number.
AMT - Amount of comments.
Twd - Total amount of comments weeded out. (Amt - 3161)
Lwd - Amount of comments weeded out this level. (Last level's AMT - AMT)
Per - Percentage of total comments. (AMT / 3161)
Lwdp - Percentage this level weeded of total. (Lwd / 3102)
+2 cuts out most of the comments. +3 is good too, it further cuts the comments in half. +4 already, however, is dissapointing. It only weeds around two percent of the total comments or only half of the last level's. And +5 is a joke, weeding less than half a percent,a dn staying nearly the same as the last level.
I think a study should be done on many stories. To see the general tendencies, and when moderation works. In popular stories, past +3 it really doesn't, though there must be a way.
[By: Chacham (User #981)]
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
C'est pas possible une bande de cons pareils !!! ... des types délirent dans leurs fantasmes les plus grotesques, s'invectivent de toute les manières possibles, sont persuadés d'être les messies du sujet abordé et la plupart du temps n'ont rien compris du tout quant ils ne déconnent pas carrèment sur quelque chose n'ayant rien a voir avec le theme principal.
Slashdot paye des mecs pour raconter de telles conneries en permanence ou quoi ???
J'ai jamais lu autant de commentaires aussi complètement à côté de la plaque que sur ce site
Fantastique.
J'espere que le generation futures auront l'occasion de bien en rire et de se rendre compte ôh combien ceux qu'on appalait les "flamers" etaint vraiment de ridicules pédants.
Peter Jackson sucks.