From: Jeremy Hylton <jhyl...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:49:18 -0800 (PST)
Local: Wed, Nov 12 2008 9:49 pm
Subject: Re: Blog Search side(bar) effects
On Nov 3, 9:39 am, "Karen J. Cravens" <karen.crav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a search on my blog name, as I'm sure a lot of people do.
We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full
> Recently Blog Search has started picking up its appearance on > blogrolls, which means I'm getting false positives every time someone > posts to a blog that has me in their blogroll. And it's a contextual > snippet, which means I can't even use it as a substitute for > subscribing to that blog (which I often already am, meaning I'm > getting doubled volume in Reader). > I can see the point in searching the whole page, given the number of
content of the page. We've had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds that you mentioned. The indexing change has improved the results for a lot of queries, both because we have the full content of the page and because we extract links that are missing from the feeds. The downside of this change is that we see more results that match only the blogroll and other parts of the page that are common to all of a blog's posts. We expected some problems from blogroll matches, but may have
Jeremy Hylton
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