From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: handling many matches Date: Sat, 02 May 2020 21:34:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8r6qj8a.fsf@gnu.org> References: <<119c0543-387d-4fad-b7fe-b4e07a7be4f8@default>> <> <<837dxuvohj.fsf@gnu.org>> <> <<83wo5usaui.fsf@gnu.org>> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="10825"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" 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 To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 02 20:35:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwyf-0002fJ-WB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 20:35:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwyf-0006vk-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:35:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwy0-00064J-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwxz-0004kt-7D; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4024 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jUwxy-00065P-Hh; Sat, 02 May 2020 14:34:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Drew Adams on Sat, 2 May 2020 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:248529 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 11:21:36 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > 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.