Comments on: How to create your own search engine in Windows 7 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/12/how-to-create-your-own-search-engine-in-windows-7/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SEO Elite Review http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/12/how-to-create-your-own-search-engine-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-153460 SEO Elite Review Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:03:16 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5549#comment-153460 <strong>SEO Elite Review...</strong> I truly appreciate you taking the time to share this . Look forward to more posts from you. Cheers :)... SEO Elite Review…

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]]> By: Barry Collins http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/12/how-to-create-your-own-search-engine-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-59025 Barry Collins Thu, 14 May 2009 09:13:41 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5549#comment-59025 Derek - apologies for the slow reply. I believe you'll need Windows Server 2008 R2 to implement the intranet/SharePoint search. Jackson - I'm not suggesting federated search is a replacement for Google for general internet searches. It's just a convenient way of quickly retrieving information from your favourite sites. Barry Derek – apologies for the slow reply. I believe you’ll need Windows Server 2008 R2 to implement the intranet/SharePoint search.

Jackson – I’m not suggesting federated search is a replacement for Google for general internet searches. It’s just a convenient way of quickly retrieving information from your favourite sites.

Barry

]]> By: Jackson http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/12/how-to-create-your-own-search-engine-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-59021 Jackson Thu, 14 May 2009 08:53:26 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5549#comment-59021 You fail to recognise the key issue with federated search which is that every search site will be using its own ranking algorithm. The federator software has no way to properly sort the results from the separate result listings into a properly ranked single list. There are other issues too. Only when the federated sites all use the same underlying ranking engine will the consolidated results be ranked correctly - fine for Windows and Sharepoint as MS will assume everyone uses, but add in Google or Wolfram alpha or all the other specialised engines? I don't have W7 to test this with but unless the results are grouped/separated by the source engine the relative positioning of results in the ranking will have limited value as an indicator of relevance. You fail to recognise the key issue with federated search which is that every search site will be using its own ranking algorithm. The federator software has no way to properly sort the results from the separate result listings into a properly ranked single list. There are other issues too. Only when the federated sites all use the same underlying ranking engine will the consolidated results be ranked correctly – fine for Windows and Sharepoint as MS will assume everyone uses, but add in Google or Wolfram alpha or all the other specialised engines?

I don’t have W7 to test this with but unless the results are grouped/separated by the source engine the relative positioning of results in the ranking will have limited value as an indicator of relevance.

]]> By: Derek O'Harrow http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/05/12/how-to-create-your-own-search-engine-in-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-58702 Derek O'Harrow Tue, 12 May 2009 14:33:50 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=5549#comment-58702 Excellent article. Any idea how to implement this for an Intranet? Excellent article. Any idea how to implement this for an Intranet?

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