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# Sun search
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/sun-search/
- Published: 2005-01-30T17:07:49.000Z
- Updated: 2005-01-30T17:07:49.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

This looks like an interesting place to follow discussions about search.

> So, this is one of the hard problems (You could probably get away with saying that it’s *the* hard problem) in search: what is a reliable measure of the aboutness of a page, given a query? I don’t think there’s any one answer to this question. I think it would be difficult to come up with a measure of aboutness that would scale well from collections of 10,000 emails to collections of 8,058,044,651 web pages. \[[Steve Green’s Weblog : Weblog](https://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/searchguy/Weblog?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]