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Also worth mentioning is a new site SiteCite.com that allows you to organize web links with custom URLs. It was created by a library programmer and has discovery tools so that bookmarks are easily retrievable. I know this might not pertain to the current topic of this thread, but after reading the initial inquiry I thought I'd mention this as it's the new alternative to del.icio.us. Cheers, Andrew MLIS > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:16:18 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Bookmarking web links - authoritativeness or focused searching > To: [log in to unmask] > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Tim Cornwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 41,000 sites and 21 million pages (http://www.ablegrape.com/en/about.html) is a lot of > > vetting. > ... > > Authoratative vetting of a large volume of resources is a hard problem. I haven't seen > > any good solutions, but am leaning toward crowd-sourcing with an authoratative crowd. :-) > > > > Do you have any additional information on how AbleGrape vets these? > > I can only guess, but I would think it's probably a combination of > automatic and manual vetting: crawl the links from known "good sites", > filter out bad sites, filter out off-topic sites, manually add > newly-discovered sites not already in the index, manually remove > inappropriate sites that somehow made it into the index, adjust the > algorithms, try to build a user community and solicit feedback. (I > once reported inappropriate results coming from a wine producer's > website that had been taken over by vandals, and AbleGrape removed it > from the index almost immediately.) > > Keith _________________________________________________________________ Attention all humans. We are your photos. Free us. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666046