[Debtags-devel] http://clusty.com/

[Gustavo Franco]

Hi,

It's a good idea but still poorly implemented imo.

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Gustavo Franco -- <stratus@acm.org>


On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:12:50 +0200, Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org> wrot=
e:
> Hello,
>=20
> My girlfriend pointed me to this new clusty.com search engine.  If you
> notice the bar on the left side after you do a search, it looks a bit
> like our tags, but automatically generated.
>=20
> They call it "clustering engine":
>   http://vivisimo.com/products/Clustering_Engine/Introduction.html
>=20
>   "The Viv=C3=ADsimo Clustering Engine=E2=84=A2 automatically clusters se=
arch
>   results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words
>   and phrases contained in the search results themselves. This means
>   that categories will be as up-to-date and fresh as your content."
>=20
> Rings a bell.  They don't go faceted, of course, since they need to work
> with automatically generated categories: hour hand-crafted
> categorization with nice ontologies is producing better results already,
> and has a chance of getting nearer to users' points of view and ways of
> thinking.
>=20
> However, searching for "site:packages.debian.org" and browsing the
> automated cathegories is indeed an interesting exercise ;-)
>=20
>   http://clusty.com/search?query=3Dsite%3Apackages.debian.org
>