Resource Categories & Genres

[Samuraid]

Maybe if there was a way if we could implement a Google powered search, however I doubt it.

Well, you can already add

site:hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/

to your google search strings if you wanted to use it to search the Hive.

 

[Kwaliti]

I've got an idea for relevancy search. The resources that are listed on top are the ones who contain the search string in the search tags, description and name, and then descending from the most appearances of the search string, to the very least. However, that might not work under certain conditions.

 

[Samuraid]

That might work in most cases; however, it is also important to consider what would happen if someone searched for multiple words. Some maps will contain all the words, some will contain only some, some will contain many of one but few of another, etc...

I suppose you could sum up all the words that matched and get some form of score, but you can see how the complexity, number of combinations, and weighting of each field (Title, description, tags) can make things very difficult to pinpoint.

Additionally, executing such a query (or queries) to search and sort such a result set would be very hard to optimize and very expensive to run.

And add to that the ability to do fuzzy/partial matches of words, and phrases, and...

Well you suddenly start to appreciate how well google works.

 

[Kwaliti]

Completely true.

 

[SerraAvenger]

I'll simply do what everybody would do:
I'll spam my map name / description / whatknowI with tags, so that it comes on the first place in the search query...

Not so good, I'ld say.

I dunno know what you could do, sorry.

 

[Shados]

Make tickboxes allowing you to choose what you're searching: title, description, author, etc.

And then organise the results as l0w_kwaliti said.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I am with Shados on that one.

 

[RED BARON]

or for the aproved ones: When the resource is approved the moderator /admin choses some tags... would make sure that it would be found under things like search: car or similar... if you are looking for a car model.
So the moderator adds the search words, but the auther also does so.
(btw dunno if this have been suggested, if then I didnt notice)

 

[Wolverabid]

The main Category labels shall remain administration created and approved (as they are now). Resource moderators are responsible for ensuring that a resource is properly tagged when it is approved.

The forthcoming Keyword genres will be user submitted and should always remain as the author has described the resource, unless the keyword violates Hive Workshop site rules.