Given a search on "Heidi," we don't return the Heidi Chronicles.
If the problem is that there are 1000 authors named Heidi and no way for the Recommind engine to prefer one author to another (meaning if you were looking for an author named Heidi you'd be missing 500+ of them), should we decide to err on the side of titles and make titles slightly more relevant than authors? We can't perform the miracle of turning up that author you vaguely remember as having the name Heidi, not matter how hard we try -- we can't handle results larger than 500 in a timely manner. (Now, remember that her book was about biscuits and we can help.) So, we should decrease the relevancy value of the author fields.
Posted by judielaine at September 8, 2003 05:43 PM | TrackBack