Is there a company out there that's already doing it? Do any of the big 3 (Google, Yahoo, MS) have weightage for community opinion in their search results? For example, does an article that gets dugg (as an example) a thousand times have greater weightage in search results than one that doesn't.
It might be an interesting idea but also a little counter productive. Articles may be getting dugg for reasons entirely different from a searcher's intentions. And also, the web community is a perfect example of the herd pattern. Only the already-famous become more-famous because they have greater visibility. An article from Perez Hilton (puh-leeez) will be dugg a thousand times much faster than a random gossip blog from Honolulu.
If you're buried deep within the pile of crap, you can have the greatest content out there but you're gonna stay at the bottom. All websites are born equal but some are more equal than others.
It's the same as an amateur photographer out there, trying to show his photos to the world. The internet is supposed to promote equality and in some ways it's failing spectacularly. But at least that photographer can put up a blog now. And someone who's really searching for it would find it.
I guess that is a victory in itself.
1 day ago
2 comments:
Not entirely sure, but I guess Yahoo does it a bit, using links from delicious.
But not sure how other "dugg" links are rated. But don't most dugg links also end up getting linked and visited a lot, increasing their rankings?
I'm not sure about that.. ever since this idea entered my head, I've been consciously looking out for this and I see a lot of highly dugg/liked blog entries etc that have very low back link counts..
Post a Comment