From: Alyse Steidler (Steidler@SBCC.NET)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 09:00:44 PST
What a wonderful innovation. Thanks for your efforts. It is too overwhelming a task for any one individual like myself to keep researching what's been removed and what's been added to the web. Much appreciation. I will take a look today.
<<< Matt Zeidenberg <zeidenbe@SSC.WISC.EDU> 12/24 6:49p >>>
We have developed a new Charles Dickens portal web page.
It has links to hundreds of pages. Please check it out! Thanks.
The address is:
http://www.active-portal.com/dickens/
This page has been developed as part of the Active Portal
Project in the Computer Science Dept at the University of
Wisconsin, an ongoing research project.
An active portal is a page devoted to a particular topic
(in this case, Charles Dickens) but with a difference.
The active portal is manually seeded with a number of a pages
known to be about a topic. A search agent then learns the
characteristics of those pages and then seeks out similar pages. This
search agent runs automatically and continuously. Thus the active
portal, unlike manually-compiled portals like Yahoo, continually
discovers new pages about a topic. In addition, it ranks a page based on
how many other pages also about that topic point to it. Thus, new pages
web move to the top of the list as they are discovered and more and more
people link to them.
Please feel free to reply to this message with any comments.
Best regards,
Matt Zeidenberg
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Dept.