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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] comments on 0.2.0
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:12:11 -0500

Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
> Chad Knepp wrote:
>
> >Stephanie Gerson writes:
> >
> > > CAN'T USERS SORT BY DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS? SORT ALPHABETICALLY,
> > > BY
> > > RELEVANCE, BY USER RANKING, ETC.?
> >
> >I think I'm beating a dead horse here, but if you can understand why
> >Google doesn't sort alphabetically then you can understand why I also
> >think it's a bad idea. Google displays the results first that it
> >thinks are the closest match to your search query.
> >
> Then, would it be possible for users to put search results, selectively
> chosen, for a series of searches on the same search string, into a cache
> and have PIW run a variety of sort routines on them (alphabetic, date
> submitted, characteristics, relationships rating [how well this object
> fits into known or potential
> relationships with other objects], user ranking, relevance, quality
> rating of data chosen to represent that object, and more?

Yes, this is sort of along the line of filters suggested by Bear and
others. I don't think this is in the 1.0 feature set though, unless
other folks really want it now.

--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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