http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html Next Generation Web in China Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-688 luliang Mon, 12 Jun 2006 01:04:43 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html#comment-688 new booso release, have a look. new booso release, have a look.

]]> http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-454 WeBuZz 网碑 » The wisdom of crowds on the web Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:50:57 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html#comment-454 [...] Before ending this post, I want to add some of my observation on Chinese blog search, I agree on the conclusion pre-drawn by others, those engines suck, although they did a incredible job luring VCs. My experiments seemed to turn out, the searching functionality of them pretty much follow the prehistorial way, namely just looking for keywords in every single page and return them in whatever order. And BBS searches can perform poor as well, I will leave my testmony another time, but a little hint is ChinaBBS sucks most. Someone may say that unlike normal one webpage or blog, a thread on the BBS doesn’t have links to eachother to utilize, but my argument is they actually have other useful clues, like the number of viewers and replys, the number of times the post has been forwarded to another place, or even the influence of the author in terms of the average viewers. Although the later 2 measurements can be tricky, which involve similarity analysis and need to keep track on every user Id, but at least the “visibility” of the post is easy to extract and then capitalized on. Many of those engines don’t do it well at best, and likely don’t do it at all. [...] [...] Before ending this post, I want to add some of my observation on Chinese blog search, I agree on the conclusion pre-drawn by others, those engines suck, although they did a incredible job luring VCs. My experiments seemed to turn out, the searching functionality of them pretty much follow the prehistorial way, namely just looking for keywords in every single page and return them in whatever order. And BBS searches can perform poor as well, I will leave my testmony another time, but a little hint is ChinaBBS sucks most. Someone may say that unlike normal one webpage or blog, a thread on the BBS doesn’t have links to eachother to utilize, but my argument is they actually have other useful clues, like the number of viewers and replys, the number of times the post has been forwarded to another place, or even the influence of the author in terms of the average viewers. Although the later 2 measurements can be tricky, which involve similarity analysis and need to keep track on every user Id, but at least the “visibility” of the post is easy to extract and then capitalized on. Many of those engines don’t do it well at best, and likely don’t do it at all. [...]

]]> http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html/comment-page-1#comment-368 Sam Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:02:07 +0000 http://www.chinawebradar.com/95/chinas-blog-search-engine-sucks.html#comment-368 I agree that all of the current Blog search engines are lacking. Lots of room for BBS search engines as well, including Chinabbs, Teein and others (if anyone else has good suggestion, I am all ears). I agree that all of the current Blog search engines are lacking. Lots of room for BBS search engines as well, including Chinabbs, Teein and others (if anyone else has good suggestion, I am all ears).

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