Prioritizing results by domain

[Thunderstone]

Is this possible? When I come up I'm going to want to index not only my
site but several other digital imaging sites. When a search is requested on
my site I'm going to want to give priority to matches on my site.

Next I want to let the other digital imaging sites use the same search, but
have them get results prioritized for content on their site. Say SDCN
decides to include my search engine on their pages. I would like to
prioritize those results so that there is a fair bias towards SDCN pages,
then a lesser bias towards my content, and then everybody else. If IRC
decides to use it, I'd like the results reported to their visitors to be
biased first toward IRC content, then mine, then everyone else's.

Van Van Horn, Editor
Digital Eyes
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Digital Eyes: Scanners and Digital Cameras -- Directory, News, and Reviews
http://www.image-acquire.com

[Thunderstone]

When all else is alike in a ranked search, the records will come
out in database order, so sites indexed first will come out first.

Another way to bias is to add a term to the query. You could search
for some unique meta data based on the site. Or you could create
a new metamorph inverted index that included Url (Title\Meta\Body\Url)
and include the site's domain in each of it's queries. You would have
to update that index yourself after walks, as gw wouldn't know about it.

Another approach would be to keep each company's data in a separate
database. Then query and present results from each database in the
desired sequence.