Re: [aseek-devel] Ranking problems

From: Kir Kolyshkin (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 07:34:24 EST


You can use "bd=on" parameter of s.cgi to search _only_ in body, ignoring
keywords, description and title of the page. See
http://www.aspseek.org/man/s.cgi.1.html#lbAF for details.

Sander wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having pretty much the same problems. It's not the ranking I think, it's more like
> ASPSeek being really spam sensitive concerning META and TITLE tags.
>
> For example the site 'www.veilinggids.nl' scores very high on a lot of searches
> but only because the site's a really big spammer. Most of the keywords they
> use in meta and title are not relevant to the actual page content.
>
> So people will think it's a crappy result.
>
> Even though ASPseek has (i think) a max limit of 255 char for keywords and a max title
> length, it still gets found. What happens with meta-tags which are extremely long? Do they
> get discarded, do they end up in the body? At least when I do a search and this site turns
> up, most often the keywords which the excerpt shows are not in the first 255 characters of
> the meta tags.
> ( I would have checked the source, but i'm in a kind of hurry. deadlines to meet).
>
> Grz
> Sander.
>
> > Savencu Catalin wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > ASPSeek is great , but it has a major problem , page ranking.
> > > I indexed about 15000 web sites in .ro TLD , about 3.000.000 web pages ,
> > > but when a search is performed ASPSeek returns irrelevant results
> > > (many on top).
> > > I searched on ASPSeek website for an explanation of how it calculates
> > > page ranks but I couldn't find anything. Can anyone point me to some
> > > documentation about this ? Is anyone working to improve page ranking ?
> >
> > IMHO page ranking in aspseek is the best among open source projects
> > (better than of ht://Dig, swish-e and mnogosearch). You can read
> > a brief description at http://www.aspseek.org/man/aspseek.7.html
> >
> > My thought is if you see that the results are irrelevant, you have
> > some serious misconfiguration problem or smth like that. Can you
> > give us the URL of your search engine so we can see what's going on?
> >
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