Administration Console to Select Rank Factors
An administration console can allow a user to input in indication of their relative weight of search-independent ranks and text matching. The system can use the relative weight to order the results of searches.
1 . A computer-based search system comprising:
An administration console that allows a user to input an indication of the relative weight of search-independent ranks and text matching; and
a search component to use the relative weight indication to order the results of searches.
2 . The computer-based search system of claim 1 , wherein the administration console uses a graphical element to allow users to select the relative weight.
3 . The computer-based search system of claim 2 , wherein the administration console uses a slider to allow users to select the relative weight.
4 . The computer-based search system of claim 1 , wherein the search logic uses connections between users and documents to create the search independent ranks.
5 . The computer-based search system of claim 1 , wherein the search logic uses connections between tags and documents to create the search independent ranks.
6 . The computer-based search system of claim 1 , wherein the search system uses matrix operations to create the search independent ranks.
7 . The computer-based search system of claims 1 , wherein the search system uses a linear combination of the search independent ranks and the text matching to order the search results, wherein a relative weight indication is used to determine the linear combination.
8 . A computer-based search system comprising:
an administration console to input indications of the importance object ranking factors; and
search logic that uses the indications to determine objects search-independent ranks, the search independent ranks being used to order the results of searches.
9 . The computer-based search system of claim 8 , wherein the administrative console uses graphical elements to allow users to select the indications.
10 . The computer-based search system of claim 9 , wherein sliders are used to allow users to select the indications.
11 . The computer-based search system of claim 8 , wherein the administration console displays default values of the indications.
12 . The computer-based system of claim 8 , wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to documents.
13 . The computer-based system of claim 8 , wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to tags.
14 . The computer-based system of claim 8 , wherein the indications include indications that concern how rank is applied to users.
15 . The computer-based system of claim 8 , wherein the administration console allows the user to select an indication of how the importance of certain actions to the ranks decreases over time.
16 . A computer-based search system comprising:
an administration console that allows a user to select an indication of how the importance of certain actions to search-independent ranks decreases over time; and
search component to update the search independent ranks using the indication.
17 . The computer-based search system of claim 16 , wherein the indication is a half life indication.
18 . The computer-based search system of claim 16 , wherein the indication determines the decrease of the importance of a user viewing an object over time.
19 . The computer-based search system of claim 16 , wherein the indication determines the decrease of the importance of a user tagging an object over time.
20 . A computer-based search system comprising:
an administration console that allows users to select at least one indication pertaining to search independent rank;
a search component to use the indication to order the results of searches; and
a statistics collection component to collect statistics concerning user interaction with search results pages; wherein the administration console allows the display of comparisons of statistics collected on searches different indications.
21 . The computer-based search system of claims 20 , wherein the indication is a weight of search indication ranks and text matching.
22 . The computer-based search system of claim 20 , where the indication is an object factor ranking indication that is used to create search independent ranks for objects.
23 . The computer-based search system of claim 20 , wherein the indication indicates how the importance of certain actions on search-independent ranks declines over time.
24 . The computer-based search system of claim 20 , wherein the statistics include information concerning the order of user selected objects from a search.
25 . The computer-based search system of claim 24 , wherein the administration console display a comparison of the order of selected objects on searches with the different indication values.