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- techguru2006, on 11/21/2008, -2/+18That's a kick to Wikia's nuts.
- wholesum, on 11/21/2008, -1/+14it is obvious that google will use aggregated searchwiki input to adjust its own rankings. google already employs an army of HUMAN reviewers to tweak portion of the most common queries it handles. eventually those paid human reviewers will be replaced by google's own (free) audience, which, because of the sample size, will do a more effective job at tweaking the results. the user wins because google presents more relevant results, which leads to more targeted advertisement, that is worth more money to the advertiser, which pays up more, which increases google's bottom line.
if you still haven't figured it out, this means one thing to us: buy GOOG. - MorganMghee, on 11/21/2008, -1/+11Hmmmm.... I'm can't decide how I feel about it.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+5As long as it doesn't result in lolcatz at the top of every search...
- feshmania, on 11/21/2008, -1/+6Dude, I will...I have searches that always result in lame top results...I think people will do it. I mean...who would've dugg up stories?
- feshmania, on 11/21/2008, -0/+4because i want to help other people? does the thought of selfless acts bother you?
- prattmic, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4Now what we need is a greasemonkey script that lets us see all the thumbs up and downs and notes directly in the results. i.e http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&swm=2&sa ...
- okyourturn, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4love google, don't trust them though.
- tms8707056, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3You don't have to pay... Just use Firefox and scroll to the bottom of the page. I have found very useful information on that site.
- KeithBarrett, on 11/21/2008, -1/+4At LAST! I can finally eliminate those pesky "Experts Exchange" links from my search results!
- benologist, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3I'm guessing it'll be dropped or never taken beyond what it is now. The only people with any motivation to modify search results are spammers. For everyone else a search on any particular topic is not likely to be relevant long enough to bother.
Who are they expecting to go through and perfect the results on [some search] when 5 minutes later they may never need to do that search again? - wholesum, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3you are either misreading the BBC report or you didnt finish reading it:
"Mr Sterling said that if Google managed to get a great number of people re-ranking results, it could improve the overall search experience. " - "improving the overall search experience" this basically means letting that input affect the search results
it won't be affecting the results for now. they need to amass a greater amount of data to make it more reliable. they also need to develop how search wiki input will influence their current algorithm. but eventually search wiki input WILL be incorporated into their results. - uhsf, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2finally getting rid of experts-exchange.com results and other useless noise from google searches
- linuxwarz, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I wonder how this service will impact results with spammers and advertisers poisoning the positions in various ways.
- benologist, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Why would you do it though? Say you want to find some piece of information. You do your search, you dig through the crap and find something suitable. Now you've got the information you wanted.
What incentive is there to then go back and organise those search results once they've stopped mattering to you? You're not going to be searching for that same topic again any time soon, if ever again.
I really don't see the point. I google stuff at least 20 times a day but it's never the same search. - benologist, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2Selfless acts don't bother me, but you're confused about who you're helping. Google isn't Wikipedia.... the only thing you're doing by refining search results for Google is help an extremely wealthy corporation avoid employing people to do their work.
- PresidentWikis, on 11/22/2008, -0/+2This will probably make the word wiki go more mainstream , that is I mean a noticeably separate word from wiki pedia
- netneutrality, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3How?? It's not remotely similar.
- netneutrality, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2On the contrary, Google freely admit that they do collect personally identifiable data and that they've never deleted a log entry, which includes all the URL pings sent back to Google every time you click a result in the search pages (which also aid a large part of their query rankings).
- frieddonuts, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I wonder if this is another way to collect data on users, or a sincere attempt at more effective ranking? Also appears that you can only promote your top results to the top of the page, not actually rank all of the results independently.
- orion9, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Experts Exchange SUCKS!!! can't believe people would pay for that service.
- cowsgonemadd3, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2I don't see the use.
- svivian, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2So? No one sees that personal data. If you still don't like that, then don't use the Internet. Simple as that.
- skabyss, on 11/21/2008, -3/+5Usually the results of my searching around are rolled-up and smoked.
- metapop, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3wiki technology is the future, and i'm glad to see google embrace it. the internet should be user driven and user governed... it's probably the main reason i like digg.
- netneutrality, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2This is a stupid idea.
I just want to Google and go to the right page, and the current algorithms do that perfectly.
Some people are going to spend hours of each day diligently annotating and tweaking search results. And those people are damn sad. Save your life and *don't* get involved! - agentmedia, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2anyone else see the goatse listed
- BrokenVisage, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2This thing rolls!
- svivian, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2"wiki technology is the future"
Um, Wikipedia has been around for at least 5 years, and there are lots of other wikis that have been around for a couple of years (you could probably include Digg in that too). I'd say wiki technology is most definitely the present. - svivian, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2According to the BBC article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7740815.stm - Google has stated that this WON'T affect search results. You only see the changes you make yourself.
- thumbwar, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2So will this feed back into their algo? Or is it just for your personal Google profile?
Or will it lead to each Google user having a personal algo that is more geared towards what they find more relevant results? That's kinda big. - inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2I've always wanted to digg in google.
- phrees, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1I'm interested in seeing how the quality of comments develops over time; whether they'll be flooded by spam, or whether focus on personal notes (it's an extra click to show all comments) will have a positive effect.
- HarChim, on 11/21/2008, -4/+5I doubt that many people are going to really bother rearranging their search results.
- neFariou5, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1For now it seems to be more of a bookmark system, but obviously Google will have this data and in the future can push the results into the main search if this experiment of theirs works out the way they want it to.
For now though, it'll be interesting to see how this affects systems like delicious. - Grazfather, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Most won't, but even 5% of google's users is millions of people.
- RyanMeray, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1It'll be interesting to see how this works in practice, but I don't really see any downsides as long as it's an optional feature, and I see a lot of upsides if its implementation is solid.
- JulieBMack, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3Interesting... I wonder how it will effect online blogs, articles, etc for writers that use google to input keywords on their work.
- robish518, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I wonder how this affects SEO rankings?
- a0me, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2That's all good and all but how do you enable this feature???
- jemts, on 11/21/2008, -1/+1"Perfectly"? Seriously?
- ktntech, on 11/21/2008, -8/+2This rocks
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