Future: HyperNews Searching

To facilitate finding information relevant to readers, each HyperNews page could have a searchable index for information that it contains, as well as for the kinds of information in the pages it links to. A search starting from some particular page would first check the index for that page, and then forward the search on to the pages that it links to. Not all links should be followed with the same likelihood, so there must be some heuristic for determining the degree to which a link is relevant to the initial query. This is similar to the fish search idea, but the matching would be based on associated indexes provided by the authors rather than by the document contents. A hibred of the two could be used; if there is an index, use that, otherwise fake it by looking at the contents.

The index for each page could automatically change according to what information is indexed by linked pages. On a periodic basis, some portion of each index would be propagated to linked pages. Each page would remember the index information for itself and some depth of neighboring pages. Which index information is kept for a page could also change automatically based on what information users actually search for.

I think a query needs to be both general and specific, so that the general part may be matched first, and then the specific part would have a better chance of matching. For example, if you wanted to search for visual languages for the macintosh, you would specify the most general concepts first, such as computers and languages, and then specify in more detail visual languages for the macintosh. This corresponds to how information is organized and interrelates. There are other ways to relate information, and these could also be used in a query. For example, part-whole relationships would apply to finding information about a car engine part. The links from a page should identify what kind of relationships hold between the page and the linked pages. These relationships could then be used to speed searches.

Related to evolving the index for each page, as discussed above, the links in a page (or some specialized pages with this capability), could evolve based on what people search for starting at that page. The links that are found from the search could be added, and less popular links could be dropped.

There are other ways to evolve the information in a page based on peoples' responses to the page. These ideas are discussed more elsewhere.

1 Base article for "Searching" by Ulrich Kroener - EIBA, 1996, Feb 21

1 Any searching sources availabe? , 1996, Mar 01

Already there by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Mar 01

thanks! , 1996, Mar 02

2 Search in News by Ziga Turk, 1995, Jun 23

1 Notification by Email by rmelo@ncsa.uiuc.edu, 1995, Jun 23

3 A search option by A.S. Baranski, 1995, Aug 09

1 Annother Vote for Searching by Edh@koriel.sun.com, 1996, Jan 10

4 About searching - Extension to HyperNews tried by Göran Hultgren, 1995, Dec 13

1 Sounds interesting by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, Dec 17

1 Sorry, but... by ghn@funsys.se, 1995, Dec 19

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2 Hultgren's ideas about hacking up Glimpse by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, Feb 28

3 understanding by ali@frontiernet.net, 1996, Jul 24

5 Search capability? by Torre Wenaus, 1996, Jan 12

1 Some day by liberte@hypernews.org, 1995, May 15

1 Search (and better) implemented! by nick@mail.esrin.esa.it, 1995, Nov 10

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2 Search (and better) implemented! by nick@mail.esrin.esa.it, 1995, Nov 10

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6 For a searchable version of hyper news called WWW News see http://inls.ucsd.edu/y/WWWNews/ by Yuval Fisher, 1995, Jun 26

7 Searching and Organizing by Daniel LaLiberte, 1996, Apr 05

8 Is there a Full Text Search Engine for HyperNews? by Jon Winters, 1996, Apr 09

1 ditto by marc@interak.com, 1996, Apr 20

Searching plans by liberte@hypernews.org, 1996, Apr 20

We support Searching our HyperNews site at BitShop by stever@bitshop.com, 1996, Jul 05

9 I have Architext Excite search working with HyperNews - here's how , 1996, May 07

1 More concisely by ulrich@eiba.com, 1996, May 29

1 Here's how I did it by Daniel LaLiberte, 1996, Jun 19

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2 More concisely net. by Darus, 2003, Oct 22

10 Is it practical to allow different sort orders for the threads? by Morris Orzech, 1996, Sep 23

11 Re: Some answers , 1996, Oct 31

1 Thanks for the discussion by glen@sytronics.com, 1997, May 20

12 Searching with Netscape Catalog Server by Brian O'Neill, 1997, Mar 21

1 Just an additional note... by oneill@cs.uml.edu, 1997, Mar 21

1 Provide the code, and I'll try to use it by Daniel LaLiberte, 1997, Mar 21

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2 mail files by dans, 2004, Jan 14

13 HyperNews with Glimpse by Amancio Hasty, 1997, May 31

14 Searching on Hypernews by SCOTT, 1997, Jun 06

15 Dumb question : What are the Keywords good for? by Ulrich Kroner, 1995, Nov 15

16 Is there a find option? , 1996, Aug 03

17 How do I search for a particular topic? , 1996, Nov 14

18 How can I search across base articles? by Ron, 1997, Jan 12

19 Search Forums? by Topher, 1998, Jan 22

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