Linden Lab announces new search
Well, we’ve been eagerly awaiting this announcement and it finally came out: Linden Lab is updating their search engine. Check out their blog for information and screenshots on the new functionality. Some highlights:
- What is searched? Land parcels, Residents profile, Groups, Second Life wiki articles, Events, and some individual Objects present on public parcels are all included in the search results.
- How is relevance determined? How well the page matches the query, how close the multiple words are together, and how many inbound links there are to the page. Inbound links are created by references in top picks, classifieds, landmarks, parcels and groups.
- Right now this is just going into their “release candidate” client.
October 19th, 2007 17:21
Perhaps you can answer a question that’s I’ve always wondered about. What, exactly, makes spammers think, despite all the tremendous amount of discussion of how much people hate spam, and the enormous resources devoted to defeating spam, that spamming is actually a good thing? I’ve never had an actual spammer that I could ask this question, so perhaps you would at least be so kind as to answer it. Do you think that, somehow, your particular spam is different? Is it some sort of exhibitionist thing, where you just get a thrill flashing your stuff in front of everyone in the LL blog? I have no idea what services and/or products are available at onrez.com or from The Electric Sheep Company, and because you choose to spam, I choose to never find out. Had you chosen legitimate marketing methods, I might actually have looked around your site.
October 19th, 2007 22:41
I hate spam as much as anyone so I will venture to ask you to elaborate on your anger, mysterious A. Resident. Where is there spam? Spam is unasked-for communication. You come to our website voluntarily. You can come to our sim voluntarily. You have come to our blog voluntarily. You can use our OnRez viewer voluntarily.
We don’t send spam emails, group message, or anything of the kind. Should you help me spot the spam, and it is indeed from us, I will gladly stamp it out.
If you are referring to the fact that this blog post was picked up as a trackback on the Linden Lab blog comments, well, I’m sorry but that’s how blog infrastructure works. We didn’t submit it, it happens automatically.
November 1st, 2007 04:37
Giff - Are you folks abandoning the sheep search project? Is it on the back burner? Very curious, now that the Linden search engine is almost ready to roll, and will include much of the functionality you guys were working on..