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So I had a beer on saturday, and made my own reader for substituting "smartmatching".
This evening I made v1.1 of the reader.
Quick & dirty, but works MUCH better than the Smart Matching that myheritage.com supplies. I don't know how long time they've used to make the smart match.. I spent a couple of beers, and 3 hours..
Now I can select what to show; only names that is different from my three, only children that I am missing, only born or death year missing. Or all together, or variations of all above.
Any false results does not show.
I've made a screenshot on my website, www.dagsside.com. The example shows my results from 115 "results" from a smartmatch-page.
This is how www.myheritage.com should do it..
Sorry, made the results visible in Norwegian, but should take me 3 minutes to fix any language...
As I've told.. the smartmatching is a few hours of work to get a perfect sollution..
Implementing it though... but that is not any problem. The problem is to make a theory work.
If the webpages of smartmatches was showed with full dates in stead of just years, I could make my own fully working smartmatch, reading sourcecode of webpages that is showing all results in stead of just up to 50.
And then I even haven't any place of birth nor death to do matching even better..
I thought of making me a crawler.. but.. I have to stop somewhere... :)
A crawler would eliminate any further search. = No fun..
I am getting a lot of matches that make no sense at all. Such as, matching someone born in 1986 with someone who has a child born in 1700. I thought these were smart!
I was having the same problem - over and over and over. Rejecting and ignoring these "not so Smart Matches" would only last a max of 12 hrs (or so it seemed).
Rather than delete my person, what I did was add spaces to the names and dates. That way, I can still read it ... dumb computer doesn't think of the spaces as a match. Viola --- haven't had a "not so Smart Match" in over a month!
I think that when somebody posts a new tree with the EXACT same information(WHICH I HATE!) it just makes a new match for you to reject and/or ignore. I have 24 pages of matching trees with people that I have confirmed or rejected. I have 88 pages of trees which I have seen fit to ignore for one reason or another, many because they were just duplicate trees from the same member with the very same matches in them.