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Uri vs Frecency - What's the difference?

uri | frecency |

As nouns the difference between uri and frecency

is that uri is hunger while frecency is (computing) any heuristic measure that combines the frequency and recency of visits to a given uri, used by some web browsers to rank uris.

uri

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A canton of Switzerland.
    • Synonyms
    * canton of Uri

    See also

    *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) "light"

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • of biblical origin; quite rare.

    • frecency

    English

    Noun

    (frecencies)
  • (computing) Any heuristic measure that combines the frequency and recency of visits to a given URI, used by some web browsers to rank URIs.
  • * 2008 February 13, Mark Raby, “ Firefox 3 Beta 3 goes live”, in TG Daily :
    • For example, a feature called "frecency " compiles the user's browing (SIC) history to suggest similar websites and searches.
  • * 2008 April 17, Deb Richardson, quoted in Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces , O’Reilly Media (2009), ISBN 978-0-596-51625-3, page 264:
    • the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by “frecency ” (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).
  • * 2008 August, unknown author, “Firefox 3: A Browser Odyssey”, , Future US, ISSN 1522-4279, page 52:
    • So the more often and the more recently you’ve been there, the higher “frecency ” it has and the higher it’s rated.
  • * 2009 March 23, Mike Beltzner, " Re: Firefox privacy prefpane UI refresh", mozilla.dev.apps.firefox, Usenet :
  • * 2009 May 20, Ron K., “ Re: Address selection preference”, mozilla.support.thunderbird, Usenet :
    • No, Tb [Thunderbird] has yet to develope(SIC) the Fx [Firefox] frecency thing. It's just simple pattern matching, IIUC.

    External links

    * http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Mconnor/PlacesFrecency * http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Places:Awesomebar * See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Replacement_Cache