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0 pointsnradov2y ago0 comments

How many characters of preview would be reasonable? 50? 100?

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Why would you even use number of characters?

A better criteria is: what fraction of people does it stop from visiting the source (because they got the information they were looking for from the summary). Yes, yes that system has it's own problems, but it is more holistic that string.length().

nradovOP2y ago

Determining that fraction would require the search engine to run a series of A/B tests with varying preview lengths, and keep detailed records of test results. That seems like an unreasonable burden.

kridsdale12y ago

That’s exactly the kind of activity the google is doing every single day, thousands of them in parallel.

CivBase2y ago

How much am I allowed to quote from a book before I'm considered a pirate?

nradovOP2y ago

In the US we have fairly clear guidelines for fair use of copyrighted materials such as books. Rules in Canada may be different.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

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soganess2y ago

Why would you even use number of characters?

nradovOP2y ago

Determining that fraction would require the search engine to run a series of A/B tests with varying preview lengths, and keep detailed records of test results. That seems like an unreasonable burden.

kridsdale12y ago

That’s exactly the kind of activity the google is doing every single day, thousands of them in parallel.

CivBase2y ago

How much am I allowed to quote from a book before I'm considered a pirate?

nradovOP2y ago

In the US we have fairly clear guidelines for fair use of copyrighted materials such as books. Rules in Canada may be different.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html

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