http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/ Search Community of Practice Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:52:34 GMT Matt Moore http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/349 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/349 Search engine software is everywhere. "Google" is now a verb and corporate users expect their internal search experience to be as impressive as the web. And Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:42:19 GMT Rebecca Allen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/348 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/348 Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call, presented by Earley & Associates. This month's topic is Taxonomy for Social Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:42:09 GMT Walter Underwood http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/347 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/347 Just beware of always jumping to Best Bets. That only solves it for one page. That's probably the right answer for "snow policy", but not for everything. Your Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:49:19 GMT tbwendt http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/346 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/346 Best Bets are essential for enterprise search. The movies title scenario is a different animal and not analogous to the corporate intranet. When you are Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:56:04 GMT Louis Rosenfeld http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/345 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/345 ... Argh. You have my deepest sympathies. I imagine that, like me, you're looking forward to a New Day, when those who make these decisions understand that Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:30:11 GMT Walter Underwood http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/344 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/344 No tool is perfect. Best Bets have an obvious strength, direct control, but weaknesses, too. Here are some weaknesses: 1. They fix one query at a time. You'll Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:16:06 GMT Matt Moore http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/343 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/343 Jordan - "Enjoying this discussion though I recently was unsuccessful in getting 'best bets' added to our site search experience with the argument that Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:34:15 GMT Jordan Cassel http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/342 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/342 Richard, Are you suggesting that Best Bets (with the notation that they are best bet results) should be created for all of the most popular X number of Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:40:34 GMT Richard Wiggins http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/341 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/341 Walter, who is wickedly smart and whose words I normally trust with impunity, is wrong. Best Bets are NOT expensive. The Zipf curve proves that a very small Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:42:57 GMT Walter Underwood http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/340 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/340 Good point, best bets are manual, and therefore expensive. I use best bets to solve a specific problem in search behavior and linguistics, that people use a Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:55:39 GMT Louis Rosenfeld http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/339 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/339 Hi Lee, great question; thanks for bringing this up! I've not seen anything on developing a best bets cost benefit model. I know that some folks would argue Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:09:15 GMT Lee Romero http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/338 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/338 Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone might have considered how to establish a model that provides some insight on the cost and benefits of managing best bets Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:48:17 GMT Rebecca Allen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/337 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/337 Invitation Please join us for our monthly Taxonomy Community of Practice Call, presented by Earley & Associates. This month's topic is Taxonomy for Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:43:38 GMT Rebecca Allen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/336 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/336 Earley & Associates presents a free 4-part Jumpstart webinar series dedicated to the strategic, organizational and technological challenges of Digital Asset Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:51:30 GMT Lee Romero http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/335 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SearchCoP/message/335 Hi all - I have a question about what kind of analysis you might have tried with data about the # of search results user queries return (if anything). We have