Search relevance my way

An alert to a new release saw me returning to Wikia Search tonight after a few months absence http://re.search.wikia.com/
What fun! The very slippery interface took a bit of getting used to - the results seemed to be continually moving around under my mouse - but the ease of editing, annotating, rating, commenting, spotlighting and deleting results is addictive.
I fiddled with a search string I feel fairly confident in: education australia

The results are so weird most people will be compelled to take up the challenge and start editing, so next time I'll work on something a little more specific. There's only a five star rating system that I could find for moving things around. It would be good to have arrows for positioning more precisely, but presumably ratings get munged amongst the community anyway.

I really like the way the Wikia principles are clearly stated under the search box: Transparency, Community, Privacy, and Quality

I managed to add the edna search as an additional option but it's slipped off again now. So much to take in, and many questions but this could become an obsession. 

Tags: search quality personalisation wikia
Posted at 07:10AM Jun 04, 2008 by Pru Mitchell  |  Comments[2]