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- martinlanny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, in billion dollar industry it's logical to keep it going. But from the user perspective, imagine you'd have a search engines where pretty much everything would be rated by the whole world, meaning it would return almost 100% relevant results.
All garbage would sink down to the bottom almost immediately after implementing this type of rating system..
Challenge for Google would be to find the way to make profit without cheaters. - martinlanny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This would have to be programmed the same way as for example those already existing IMDB ratings. So maliciouse bots are not able to cheat? The same way as lets say CNN polls, IMDB ratings or Digg ratings….or other voting/rating technologies., where it’s very very hard to cheat these types of voting mechanism check quite a lot of variables and effectively preventing such bots from hacking in. It could check unique ip addresses from where the request was made and it could check if bot is acting like a virus and spreading among ip address ranges too. Also it could be made that only registered users and those with some existing history would be able to vote.
Basically, It would filter out malicious schemes as you just mentioned.
Do not forget, that Google has enough technological power to make this work just fine. Rating system like this would also be much more easier to implement and also easy to control its workings. And lastly this would 100% render all cheaters out of the picture and also make internet something it no longer is: Clean and Relevant. - alwaysepic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0great article, I knew of this problem, and it's good to see someone inspired enough to write about it.
But one thing, I support affiliate marketing, people are searching for information, and in some cases the best information has to be bought. I see how affiliate links can be looked at as millions of doorway pages, so perhaps search engines should try to distinguish affiliate links and not count them towards relevancy. Maybe they could also show a seperation in search results between businesses, information that costs, and websites with free content and access, which some may argue is what google is doing with the option for different search functions, like the search blog, search article, and search news functions.
I like the idea for rating search results, but whats to keep those "black hatters" from developing a way to rate their own websites to the top again?
Overall this was an excellent article! Thanks! - ranroc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting; never knew that that is how it all worked; but I usually get what I'm searching for when I use google. guess now I will take notice if my search results appear less relevant; but I don't know if a ratings system would be something that google would want, especially if it threatened their rate of revenues.
-RY - webshared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think more powerful and spam-proof solution for Google is to use data from Google Toobar.
Maybe google is already using it.
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