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By: Perry_T

Perry_T — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:09 +0000

AS long as this improves my own search results, then I am all for it.

By: berto_s

berto_s — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:34:24 +0000

This move fits in perfectly with the data collection that Google was already doing for popular votes (stars), where they have been tallied up and used to determine whether sites should be ranked higher.

In addition, with the recent influx of locally targeted results and local search tools, this seems to be a perfect fit. Google can now pick up on local search trend data and display results in the same area for that area. This can then be used to give higher rank to the little sites that may only be in one city. It can also be used to prevent click-fraud by simply not reflecting clicks from that hot spot or other country that may be ranking one site higher than is typical.

If you want to see another use of user input changing the Google result, check out Google maps and look on the left side where they have “Add or Edit your business: Learn more »”. Now on the maps, you can move the pinpoint of a location. And they do have safeguards to prevent malicious changes.

By: Cezanne Huq

Cezanne Huq — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:37:10 +0000

I think it’s worth testing but part of me thinks the democratization of “relevance” could hurt search but then the other half says this is the step in search development.

dunno but good to see that this type of experimenting is public and open…

By: Mo Raja

Mo Raja — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:38:39 +0000

I am owner of
Official Football Credit Cards and I believe this system wont work well for. In fact sites football wallpapers and graphics of star players would probably get “digged” or “dug” and sales sites would be burried. If I type in ‘football’ and come across “American Football” sites, I would burrie every single one. It doesnt necessarily mean these websites are rubbish. It just means… thats wasn’t what I was searching for ‘on this occasion’. I think a youtube style voting system would be better. At least you will have organic results.

By: Alfred Saforo

Alfred Saforo — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:27:18 +0000

i would like to brand Google as the biggest copy cat ever. They have taken on paypal , skype, youtube and now digg. What will this monster do next? Google Air?

By: Joy

Joy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:29:03 +0000

hmmm…sounds interesting..^^

By: seopat

seopat — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:06:56 +0000

to improve results for yourself it’s ok, but how about influence of a one’s choice to natural lists

By: Indus

Indus — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:59:59 +0000

Did you notice the URL of the experiment? The last part “a840e102″ decodes as ‘a double dose of cannabis produces a 100 times better search engine!’ More analysis on my post at http://www.khaitan.org/mt/archives/000194.html

By: Steven Marder

Steven Marder — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:31:25 +0000

As mentioned in one of the earlier comments, Eurekster launched its community-powered social search platform “swicki” close to 3 years ago, and explicit voting functionality in 2006. To date, over 100,000 swickis have been built, each serving a community of users passionate about a specific topic. Each swicki comes with a customizable widget that contains the searchbox and the “buzzcloud” widget, making it easy for swickis to be added to a topical site or blog and shared among the community. A recognized innovator and leader in social search, Eurekster processes over 25,000,000 searches a month. The key to Eurekster’s success in improving relevancy here has been leveraging the explicit (and implicit) user behavior though at the group or community level, not individual or general. Check out http://www.eurekster.com.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:06:07 +0000

I’m not a big fan of this concept. If it ever went mainstream, I can only imagine everyone wanting to pay a big group of people to up their rank and downgrade their competitors.

I think this will only work well with each person’s personal results.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:47:18 +0000

This technology has been implemented earlier in the Russian search engine Google: http://wiki2.ru

By: Salvo

Salvo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:42:55 +0000

I did not predict this specifically would happen, but am not surprised. They have been testing it out with Google CO-Op haven’t they? When I started getting better results by searching in Del.icio.us as opposed to Google, I did have an idea that Google would need to start adding a human element to keep up with the others.

By: Aviran's Place

Aviran's Place — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:32:01 +0000

Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results…

Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.
The program, part of Google Labs, works like this:
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by a…

By: Giga Promoters Blog

Giga Promoters Blog — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:56:04 +0000

New Revolution coming up with Google soon…

Looks like google is now out to improve its ranking algorithm real soon. Recently Google labs announced that they have started out the experiment to have additional functionalities with their search results page, which will enable end user to actually …

By: supaswag

supaswag — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:04:10 +0000

The last thing Google will do, is to include a “vox populi” that’s easy to subvert into their search algorithms. It’s [at the moment] just a personal feature to attract “The Digg Crowd”. Otherwise you’ll have thousands of badly paid computer monkeys, typing in keyphrases and then giving company’s direct competitor’s listings bad ratings. Google is doing a very good job at the moment to make it as challenging as possible to influence search engine results. And they’ll do everything to keep it like that.

http://supaswag.blogspot.com/

By: clem

clem — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:41:21 +0000

I did see it coming actually…
I emailed Google some time ago offering my services and suggested this to them, amongst other things. Never heard back from them.

Where’s my very large prize?

By: Shahar Nechmad

Shahar Nechmad — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:26:16 +0000

Although it sounds really cool at start, think about it - How many sites you really don’t want to see in search results? How many exact searches you do again and again if you don’t like the top 3 results?
The only good thing here will be if Google will use it to better search results of everyone. But of course this will be almost impossible thing to do without getting into hell of SEO problems.

Shahar Nechmad
CEO, NuConomy
http://www.nechmads.com

By: IdeaTagger

IdeaTagger — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:28:17 +0000

Taken from a blog post I wrote back in June:

“… a social search engine where users could own search phrases by being one of the first to rate results generated for them and then share in any advertising revenues resulting from those phrases.”

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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:30:09 +0000

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By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:27:03 +0000

@51 @83 - I was actually really enjoying the comment thread until you had to pollute it with your self indulgent bullshit. Please find another blog to masturbate over you trolling idiots.

By: Burgo

Burgo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:54:54 +0000

@71,
Even if Google says this will never influence general results, you’d have to think they’d be stupid to NOT be looking at these stats in that context…