From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,
dgutov@yandex.ru, adam@alphapapa.net, kyle@kyleam.com,
drew.adams@oracle.com
Subject: Re: handling many matches
Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 21:34:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o8r6qj8a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db6f7655-0562-4eb1-a8a2-52f194f44471@default> (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 May 2020 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jonas@bernoul.li,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, philippe.vaucher@gmail.com, adam@alphapapa.net,
> kyle@kyleam.com
>
> > Compare with the Internet search: it almost always brings me hundreds
> > of hits, but I normally find what I was after among the first dozen.
>
> Relatively little of that power/accuracy comes
> from it learning from your habits (your previous
> searches etc.). It mostly comes from back links,
> i.e., how many links a URL has from other URLs.
AFAIK, this is outdated. It's how search engines worked several years
ago. They are much smarter nowadays.
> Of course, links among web pages in turn reflect
> user use patterns (including searches). But not
> just your own use patterns.
I have evidence that my personal details and previous searches do
affect the results.
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2020-05-02 19:18 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-01 17:20 handling many matches [was: [ELPA] New package: transient] Drew Adams
2020-05-01 22:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 6:29 ` handling many matches Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 16:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 16:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 18:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-02 21:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
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