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Re:The web starts on page four by kwerk on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:05AM (#30176932)
Whoa. Searching a few random terms you’re hitting your goal of “serendipity” results. Can you share more about the search basics? I’m learning search now
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Re:The web starts on page four by marginalia_nu on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:32AM (#30179827)
Don't really know what to say, a lot of the algorithms are snore-inducingly standard.

TF-IDF, an approximation of BM-25. Only twist is that I do Personalized PageRank biased toward a secret segment of the internet to promote the right kinds of search results.

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