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Re: Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries

#31

Its a great idea and you should keep going with this (and nice work so far). You may want to consider the idea of only presenting disambiguating tags. A simple heuristic like finding the top x tags of close to equal cardinality and throw the rest away. The value of what you've built is disambiguation and if you present every single tag, most of those tags are noise. Hope this helps.

> “disambiguating”

Interesting to think about.

Something like—High frequency tags may be present in the name or as synonymous with the search term, whereas less common/frequency terms, which would characterize the link, would not appear.

I’ve not done any work on this topic but it’s very interesting.

I’m thinking about search on e-commerce sites (lol. holiday shopping) where you’re searching on a general term or type of product. The results are mixed, so you sort by price. Let’s see what a high value item looks like, and a low value; this is an evaluation heuristic to reveal different quality products.

Maybe there should be both tags then? A few high frequency and a few low frequency?

Re: Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries

#32

> We share your IP address and your search query with Microsoft Bing, as we use the BING API as our search engine backend

Wouldn't this kind of use go against bing terms of use as they probihit using the results for any kind of machine learning training?

> [Do not] Use data received from the Search APIs as part of any machine learning or similar algorithmic activity. Do not use this data to train, evaluate, or improve new or existing services that you or third parties might offer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bi...

Note: I'm partly asking this because some time ago I was thinking of setting up a little bit similar thing and I decided it would go against bing api terms.

Re: Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries

#33
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! I am partially indexing on my own but as of now mostly relying on Bing API. Yes, the number of tags and their quality is an issue. The current keyword suggestion algorithm will get better as more and more people use it. I would love to checkout your search engine if you have a link handy

it was in his profile: http://www.unscatter.com/

Thanks, I just got back to this thread and you already linked it for me :) I didn't want to risk being seen as hijacking a thread.
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