User data and relevance ranking

From: Stephens, Owen <o.stephens_at_nyob>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:51:56 +0100
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
There was some discussion around this recently, and I thought this post
by Anand Rajaraman was of interest, about how Google tune their ranking
using 'raters' (people) to establish benchmarks against which to measure
their ranking algorithms
 
http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/06/how-google-measures-search-qu
ality.html
 
Owen Stephens
Assistant Director: eStrategy and Information Resources
Central Library
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
 
t: +44 (0)20 7594 8829
e: o.stephens_at_imperial.ac.uk
 
Received on Fri Jun 13 2008 - 03:30:49 EDT