[Developers] RFE: popularity score

[Andi Vajda]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Shug Boabby wrote:

> This RFE got lost in one of my posts from a few days ago. Copied here.
>
> When returning ranked results, it would be incredibly useful if there
> was some score that measured the popularity of an entity. For
> wikipedia articles I would imagine the "number of edits" would be a
> good indicator... usage stats would be awesome ;-) I find the
> Wikipedia ID to be a crude measure of popularity, as obviously the
> more popular stuff was added early (although, due to the cultural bias
> of the Wikipedia editors in the early days, this does have some really
> weird side effects).

The new relevance server, currently under developement, is returning the 
Lucene relevance score for each document. The popularity of the document is 
factored into the relevance score. Note that this relevance score is only 
meaningful in the context of the query that computed it and cannot be used 
for comparisons outside of this particular query and results.

Andi..