More Like This: Display related content from various providers on your nodes

Overview

More Like This is a module which provides a framework for incorporating content from various sources/providers such as:

• Internal Taxonomy search
• Flickr image search
• Google Video search
• Yahoo BOSS Web/News search
• Yahoo BOSS Image search

When editing a node, you can provide keywords that are used to return related content from a configurable subset of these providers. Videos are returned from Google Video, images returned from Flickr, stories from Yahoo BOSS web/news search, etc.

Calais Integration

If you are using the Calais modules, you can use the semantic metadata applied to your nodes to pre-fill your More Like This keywords/terms with the Calais terms which are deemed most relevant.

Configuration

General

There are a number of configurable settings that can be adjusted to fine-tune the determination of which Calais terms are "worthy" of inclusion in the set of More Like This ultimately passed off to content providers, including:

Pre-populate with Calais Suggestions

Provides the ability to pre-fill applied MLT terms using eligible Calais terms by simply checking a box on a node's edit page (relevancy threshold below determines eligibility).

Global Term Relevancy Threshold

Calais' web service not only returns suggested terms based upon a semantic evaluation of your content -- it also provides a relevancy score associated with each term.

This variable determines how relevant a Calais term must be in order to be suggested for inclusion in the MLT terms.

Flickr

More Like This Flickr allows you to incorporate photos from Flickr on a node page, by passing the applied MLT terms to the Flickr service as keywords, etc.

Enabled Node Types

Select the node types that can display the Flickr MLT block.

Search Parameters (Flickr API Settings)

# of Photos

Number of photos to display.

Safe Search

Adjust the filters used to prevent objectionable photos from surfacing on your site.

Tag Search Mode

Use "Any" to include photos matching any combination of MLT terms applied to a node, and use "All" to only include photos matching EVERY MLT term applied.

Size Suffixes

Choose a sizing constraint for photos returned by Flickr.

Google Video

More Like This Google Video allows you to incorporate content from Google Video on a node page, using the applied MLT terms that meet the Term Relevancy Threshold for MLT Google Video requirement.

Enabled Node Types

Designate a set of content types that will support More Like This Google Video.

Google Video Bar Settings

Result Set Size

Define the maximum number of results returned by Google Video (small = 4 results, large = 8 results).

Orientation

Choose an orientation for the video bar (horizontal row or vertical column).

Video Bar Cycle Time

Define the amount of time that elapses between refresh cycles (i.e. results set is larger than the number of videos that can be shown at once).

Video Bar Cycle Mode

Choose between random and sequential cycles.

Use Status Root

Allow users to manually advance the rotation by clicking on links that correspond to the MLT terms utilized.

Status Root CSS ID

HTML ID for this container of the status root.

Video Bar CSS ID

HTML ID for this container of the video bar.

MLT Taxonomy

More Like This Taxonomy allows you to define the types/amount/relevancy of related nodes presented while actively viewing the node at hand.

Content type-specific settings

Define the parameters used to identify related content when the node at hand is of this type.

Enable More Like This Taxonomy

Enable More Like This Taxonomy functionality for this content type.

Target Content Types

Choose which content types should be included in the search for nodes having MLT terms in common with this particular node.

Number of results

Define the maximum number of results that can be returned by More Like This.

Node Relevancy Threshold for MLT Taxonomy

Set a minimum relevancy score that must be met in order for a match to be created. Uses a 0.00-1.00 scale based on percentage of matching terms, 0.00 being least relevant (i.e. large number of loosely-related matches returned).

Node Relevancy = (# of applied MLT terms for node at hand matching Calais terms applied to another node) / (total # of applied MLT terms for node at hand)

For example, if 2 of 3 applied MLT terms for the node at hand matched the applied Calais terms for another node, the relevancy score would be 0.67.

Yahoo! BOSS

More Like This Yahoo! BOSS allows you to incorporate content from Yahoo! BOSS on a node page, by passing the applied MLT terms to the Yahoo! BOSS service along with the parameters defined below.

Yahoo! BOSS Global Settings

Yahoo BOSS App ID

Enter a valid Yahoo application ID.

Language

Specify a valid language code.

Region

Specify a valid region (country) code.

Sites

Include/exclude sites from the standard BOSS collection. For example: site:cnn.com or -site:nytimes.com.

Content type-specific settings

Enable More Like This Yahoo! BOSS

Enable More Like This functionality for this content type.

Type of BOSS Search

Choose web (entire web) or news (news sites only).

Number of results

Choose the maximum number of results to be returned by Yahoo! BOSS.

Sites

Include/exclude sites from the standard BOSS collection (on a content type-specific basis). For example: site:cnn.com or -site:nytimes.com.

Document types

Enter a comma-separated list of supported document types to return, e.g. -text to exclude plain text documents. Note: This is only applicable to web searches, not news.

Yahoo! BOSS Images

More Like This Yahoo! BOSS Images allows you to incorporate images from Yahoo! BOSS on a node page, by passing the applied MLT terms to the Yahoo! BOSS service along with the parameters defined below.

Yahoo! BOSS Images Global Settings

Yahoo BOSS App ID

Enter a valid Yahoo application ID.

Language

Specify a valid language code.

Region

Specify a valid region (country) code.

Content type-specific settings

Enable More Like This Yahoo! BOSS

Enable More Like This functionality for this content type.

Number of results

Choose the maximum number of results to be returned by Yahoo! BOSS Images.

Filter Images

Whether or not to activate the Offensive Content Reduction filter. If set to yes, content marked as offensive is omitted from results.

Image Dimensions

The size of the destination image returned. Small images are generally thumbnail or icon sized. Medium sized images are average sized; usually not exceeding an average screen size. Large images are screen size or larger.

Node-Specific Provider Selection

You can toggle which providers should be tapped to return related content on a node-specific level (these selections are defaulted based on how this is configured at the content type level).