Introducing amascore 3
24. 02 08 - 23:27 - Category:Internet
(English Text)
Three and a half year ago I started a very nice
project with Oliver Dauben: amascore. Based on a collection
of technologies (where some where quite hip at
those days), like JSP, XML, Webservices (Amazon
ECS), Java and JDBC, we created a search engine
upon the Amazon product database where the
ranking of the search result is calculated from
an analysis of customer reviews. Here, the
relative review scoring is such that a product
with many 4 star reviews may rank higher that an
product with only one or few 5 star reviews.
The project reached an almost final stage with amascore 2.1 in 2005. Later in 2005 we abandoned the project because our priorities shifted.
A few days ago my stuff moved to a new server, and so did amascore. The search engine wasn't running smoothly anymore and I had the choice to shut it down or to make it run. So I reviewed code, removed a lot of bugs, installed the latest JRE and the latest servlet container (tomcat), tweaked the JSP and CSS at bit.
The result is amascore version three point zero.
The project reached an almost final stage with amascore 2.1 in 2005. Later in 2005 we abandoned the project because our priorities shifted.
A few days ago my stuff moved to a new server, and so did amascore. The search engine wasn't running smoothly anymore and I had the choice to shut it down or to make it run. So I reviewed code, removed a lot of bugs, installed the latest JRE and the latest servlet container (tomcat), tweaked the JSP and CSS at bit.
The result is amascore version three point zero.