DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Is Google crowdsourcing? Not quite

  • aidanhenry · 1 year ago
    By adding any kind of 'opinion' to search kills its ability to remain subjective. Furthermore, it increases the likelihood of gaming by the scum of the Internet. I highly doubt (maybe 0% chance or so) that Google would ever choose this route.

    The only thing I can see working is a situation where you can "vote" your OWN results up and down, so that Google can adapt to your behavioural patterns and results should become more relevant. Of course, this would have no effect on the searches of others though.

    Cheers,
    Aidan
    www.MappingTheWeb.com
  • mathewi · 1 year ago
    I agree, Aidan. That's kind of what I had in mind as well. I just
    don't see Google mucking with the main index, for the reasons you
    describe.