Ross Singer wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 5:19 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>> The use of the word "relevance" is misleading. No software can guess,
>> from the few words the user feeds it in every instance, whether
>> something that matches the character strings is actually relevant
>> to what the user had in mind.
>
> Now this is just being pedantic.
>
So you are suggesting the POV of Humpty-Dumpty:
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it
means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
... when using the word "relevance" with regard to search result
ranking.
B.E.
Received on Fri Dec 21 2007 - 09:57:33 EST