Chinese. LEARN TAGALOG @ Tagalog Lang. Pin1yin1.com. Porter Stemming Algorithm. 1/2 Most Frequent 1000 Kanji of the Japanese Language. Free Japanese Lessons - Learn the Japanese language online for f. Proximity is a hack « Timboy. Here’s a more technical (and much longer!) Post than usual – some thoughts about web search relevance, which may help explain why I ended up at Powerset. Relevance Improvements (large and small) I’ve been working in web search since 2000 (Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, and now Powerset). During that time, I’ve seen lots of new techniques that made small but significant improvements in relevance for the user, including several different ways to use machine learning.
During that entire time, though, I’ve only seen two new techniques that, by themselves, made a large difference, a step-function kind of change. They are: Use of inbound links. So what do inbound links get you? What does proximity get you? Why Proximity Matters Proximity matters because terms that are close to each other in the text are more likely to be closely connected in the meaning structure of the text. Take a query like Obama Afghanistan, for example.
Result #9: Result #12: Updated April, 2007. Implementing proximity Result #7: