[Xapian-discuss] word pair indexing and querying

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Fri Sep 22 00:46:33 BST 2006


On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:44:27PM +0100, Mark Hagger wrote:
> To describe what is going on in a bit more detail, we are providing results to
> another system that is, in effect, a meta search engine.  The end users will
> be accessing the system on their mobile phones so there only a handful of results
> can be displayed and these are shared amongst all of the contributing search systems. 
> 
> Each contributing search engine only gets to return a couple of results and the
> meta-search engine picks the best X from those results.  In order to "play nice"
> it is better to return nothing (and give the other seach systems a chance) than
> to return matches that are dubious, hence our extreme prejudice against mediocre
> matches.

Is it OK (indeed desirable) to return "mediocre" matches provided they
have low scores?

I'm wondering if there are no good matches from any systems, if you want
some matches to return to the user...

Cheers,
    Olly



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