Search Result Sorting

Tim Bray has published another excellent post regarding search: this one regarding the sorting of large result sets. One commenter on this article noticed that Google doesn't display any more that 1000 search results for any query, and therefore wondered about the validity of Google's Result page claim that, say, 1,390,000 documents were found for a particular query.  In any case, Tim rightly points out that most users rarely drill down past the first hundred results.

Also check out Tim's excellent series On Search, which is an excellent overview to the intersection of technical and design of best practices for full-text search design and implementation.