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Originally Posted by pocketrockets
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Wales, a former futures trader who has become an evangelist for the free sharing of technology, said users could work together to improve search engines, just as Wikipedia users had tweaked and rewritten articles on the sprawling encyclopaedia.
The process of constant improvement would also make search technology less susceptible to spam, he said....
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This man knows SHIT about Search Engines.
It is very easy to build a bad / hard to build a mediocre search engine.
Trust me, I know.
"Users will help" Yeah, right. The first few months (and after) they'll find ways to game your little engine for all it's worth. Especially if this thing starts with a decent size... and we#re talking the works: Recommendation Networks (digg, reddit, stumbelupon, anyone?), script kiddies, guru hackers, fake admins, SEO optimized sites, cloaking, etc..
Planning to make the ranking open? A SEO dream come true.
After that, is he planning on letting people play with the ranking algorithm itself?
Ha, have fun with that. Ranking algos are a complex lot consisting of dozens of variables. Anyone ever play around with one? You turn one little variable a tiny fraction, you're tearing down the house.
After all that, maybe it'll work out fine and kill google and Yahoo for good.
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