[MacPerl-WebCGI] Relevancy Rating Schemes

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

I know how to create a Perl search engine for a web site that will return a list
of hits linked back to the corresponding files, but how do you create a ranking
system that will let you order the results by degree of relevancy? If the search
term is just one word, it seems to me that every result would be 100 (on a 0-100
scale); if it was two words in an "OR" search, a hit would either be 50 or 100,
etc. I assume that I am not considering something obvious since ranking schemes
don't appear to actually work that way.

Thanks for any explanations of this voodoo.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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