Any idea how to do this in Python?

[Matthew Warren]

> On 17 Oct 2006 02:56:45 -0700, Lad <python at hope.cz> wrote:
> >
> > Dennis,
> > Thank you for your reply
> > You say:
> > >Pretend you are the computer/application/etc.  How would YOU
> > > perform such a ranking?
> > That is what I do not know , how to perform such ranking.
> > Do you have any idea?
>  
Maybe something like,

As you capture the input from the web form in your python app on the
server, pull out the keywords you are interested in and store those
together with logon/user information in a database.

Alongside that, store the text for all your adverts in a database along
with a list of keywords for each advert.

Then, when it comes to displaying the targeted adverts on a webpage,
grab the user keywords from the database, use them to match against
adverts that have the same keywords stored in the database, then choose
from those adverts and include the output into your webpage.

Something like that should at least ensure the relevant ad's turn up on
the page. As to a more sophisticated 'weighting' scheme, you could start
doing things like associating values with keywords, matching up which
keywords a user has used against the keywords stored against different
ads, sum up the total score for each ad, the ads with the highest scores
based on the user keywords given should be displayed first..

I havent a clue if there are 'official' ways of doing it, but that's the
kind of thing I'd start looking at, anyhoo

Matt.

To the list: apologies for appended text, I  cant get to google groups
to post today :/



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