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

[owen at permafrost.net]

First thing I did was an ego search and clicked on all the up buttons ;-)
Owen

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:20:57PM +1100, damien morton wrote:
> 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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