[FoRK] google introduces up/down voting on their search results

[damien morton]

I am picturing businesses furiously clicking promote on their own
links and remove on their competitors.

Its not so much the masses as the spammers that are the problem.

I read a great insight about Google - while they set out to passively
observe the internet, they are in fact a giant TV camera pointed at
the crowd. Wherever it points, the crowd goes wild, flashing their
tits and putting up "hi mom" signs. In this case the crowd are mostly
spammers and their ilk.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:24 AM, damien morton <dmorton at bitfurnace.com> wrote:
>> Just noticed that Google has added two buttons to entries from its
>> search results "promote" and "remove"
>
> Has been in labs for a bit, I think; will be interesting to see how it
> survives contact with the masses. (Cue Beberg complaining that the
> masses are idiots.)
>
> Luis
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