From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Thu Sep 17 1998 - 15:59:22 MDT
Joe Jenkins wrote:
> ---Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't think so. Since sex/reproduction is the prime motivator for
> the
> > vast majority of humanity, leaving it out is stupid, puritanical and
> > disingenuous.
>
> It *doesn't* exist, I was making a proposal to create the "Human
> Memeome Project". Also, If you don't exclude adult sites, your data
> mining effort will conclude that the most popular of all human memes
> is "free nude teen pics".
Considering that we are heading for 6 billion souls on this planet, it seems
to me that that estimate is right on. 'nude teens' may be the most popular
meme that is running through peoples minds.
> The next 100 down the list will be similar.
> There is plenty of adult information in personal web sites and I
> believe that to be more representative of a human individual than
> people looking to make a quick buck. Those sites represent someone's
> effort to influence others to spend, not someone's effort to publish
> their personal memes on the web.
>
> ---Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> wrote:
>
> > You are basically wanting to catalogue an index for a super-search >
> engine.
> >
>
> No, lets say you wanted to collect a snapshot of a specific class of
> memes e.g. (idioms/buzz words/catch phrases/figures of speech). Since
> most of these phrases are between three and six words, you could start
> searching for multiple matches from the greater web of every group of
> three to six words you encounter on the web site that is currently
> being scanned. Certainly, you would need a super-search engine as a
> tool to accomplish this. But the output would be a list of catch
> phrases that are common in the meme pool.
No you don't need to use a search engine. Since search engines already run
off of indexes, you use the indexes to do an incidence count of how
frequently any word occurs within 3 words of any other word, as well as the
most frequent word sequences. You then create a search engine that runs off
of your new 'catch phrase' index to provide meme searching capability.
Mike Lorrey
>
>
> Joe Jenkins
> joe_jenkins@yahoo.com
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