Re:The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Over...
by teshima on Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:52PM
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How different could be the results from linked_lists tool compared with Google results for a specific topic? Are they more close to what a developer needs?
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Re:The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Over...
by bcleary on Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:56PM
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Ah, you guessed my next paper :) I have done a little informal analysis on the top 10 results from linked_lists vs the top 10 for that tag used as a Google query. They are quite different, almost totally different actually. But this is not really surprising if you think of the developers curating the links posted on Stack Overflow. I know there was an attempt a few years back to build a search engine based on the SO data set, don't know what happened to that.