[Sigwac] Call for discussion: The SIGWAC crisis (instead, of an announcement of WAC-XI)

[Eros Zanchetta]

On 02/08/2017 09:53, Miloš Jakubíček wrote:
>> 2) BootCaT's approach of using tuples of specific terms restricts the
>> results so much that most of the time you want *all* the results you can
>> get, so ranking becomes somewhat less relevant
>>
> No, this is not true, at least not for English and other languages with big
> online presence. The ranking actually does a really important job. You'd be
> able to retrieve thousands of hits through Bing/Google, but the ones at the
> top are actually often the best ones according to a multitude of criteria
> pushed by the ranking.

Yes, that's definitely true for Google/Bing, what I meant is that Yacy's 
current index is a lot smaller (sometimes you get less than 10 results 
for a tuple) therefore ranking become irrelevant, as far as BootCaT is 
concerned, because you download all the pages returned by the search 
engine.