[HN Gopher] Evaluating Search Algorithms
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       Evaluating Search Algorithms
        
       Author : clandry94
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-04-01 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | NumberCruncher wrote:
       | I should re-read the article because I can't see what kind of
       | problem they try to solve with MAP, NDCG and "invented here"
       | Pagerank what couldn't be solved with tf-idf and out-of-the box
       | Elasticsearch functionality. Maybe just "I invented my own
       | Pagerank algo" looks better on the CV than "I spent 2 weeks
       | reading through the ELK documentation". It's a highly underrated
       | peace of software.
        
       | ntonozzi wrote:
       | Great article!
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       | This seems like a fairly tricky ranking function. I wonder if
       | they compared it to combining TF-IDF and the page popularity.
       | This would help with the problem they explained.
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       | It'd be interesting to see more details about how they
       | implemented the query-specific page rank.
        
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