Re:Monkey.org
by shadowgovt on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:24AM
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The Pareto principle suggests that the hypothetical Google bookstore, being maximally useful to the querying individual should be showing some ten books for any given query if those books successfully answer 80% of the questions.
A randomizing carousel is a different tool, which Google is not. Nor, to my knowledge, is DDG or Bing... They show a different set of ten books, but the same optimizing goals apply for their use cases.
Is anyone doing something like a search engine that intentionally surfaces rarer data (i.e. makes the tradeoff intentionally of "less likely to satisfy your query, but seen by fewer people")? I'm not aware of one.
A randomizing carousel is a different tool, which Google is not. Nor, to my knowledge, is DDG or Bing... They show a different set of ten books, but the same optimizing goals apply for their use cases.
Is anyone doing something like a search engine that intentionally surfaces rarer data (i.e. makes the tradeoff intentionally of "less likely to satisfy your query, but seen by fewer people")? I'm not aware of one.