Google Fooling Around With Digg Style Voting

DAM. I had this idea a while back. Problem is that I don't have enough knowledge.

I think it is a dumb idea.. google needs to stick to what they do best... search!

Wow, a very nice idea and a very impressive blog!

If the keep it for individuals, fine, but they shouldn't social media it. Social media is enough BS as it is. Why not let us keep exploiting the rankings with paid links instead of exploiting the rankings with paid clicks?

I this one is going to be gr8.
I will love to see this customization

Hehe, shows how little people actually read blogs.

I think it's got the potential to be a good idea for those with google accounts. Everyone should realise that no algo is perfect (not to say that Google hasn't made a mess of their own so far!), and "learning" from a person's input should help them display more accurate results (for the individual user) over time.

It's also an acknowledgement that the concept of search is a subjective one. What I may view as being a relevant result for a particular search, others may not. Whilst redefining your search solves this, it takes longer. Of course, you could always argue why bother to use a voting at all, when search click patterns could be monitored to build a user profile, without interfering with the user experience.

The Digg-style voting system appeals because of the traffic and exposure benefit, whilst this Google approach is just to help with your own search relevancy - question is, knowing that, would you bother using it at all?

Some of you guys are killing me :lol:

Its a custom search. Read the last Q and A:
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Googles not the dumb guys come on. Do you really think they would allow search results to be manipulated by the general public? sheez.

Any way I can customize my results is fine with me. :mrgreen:

I think that some day it's will be in the main page. It's necesary for google.

If Google uses this to affect the results in the general index I bet we're going to see a lot more spam.

"The votes only affect the results you see. They do not spread out to the rest of the general search index."

This is the key part. Google would *never* have any kind of social voting system that affects real search results. It would be even more open to gaming than their current index.

I've actually think that this is something Google should have been doing for a while. there are some searches that people do often, and I should be able to "vote down" sites I wouldn't go to. I actually think it might be interesting to extend to their normal search, but people might really try to game the system (not like they don't now)

I think Google is starting to lose control of their own search engine and are trying to "patch it up." There have been apocalyptic predictions of computers taking over the world with the advent of true AI and I'd be willing to bet if it happens it will be at the hands of Google.

I think all of you missed the point of this feature. This is not social voting because there is no “social” aspect to this. All it’s doing is allowing the user to sort the search results to their liking. It’s not applied to the general index, but only stored locally.

This might be an interesting modification to Google search. If it helps reduce the impact of splogs, great!

Google certainly isn't done "bitch-slapping" folks though, it seems. It looks like you can't backlink to your blog when leaving a comment on blogger, unless you have a blogger blog. Try it. I have been for the last several hours after I read a post about it on DCR Blogs.

does anybody know if john chow uses a widget at the end of his posts, "If you like this post then please consider subscribing to my full feed RSS. You can also subscribe by Email and have new posts sent directly to your inbox." or does he do this manually?

Great news for black hats

Hey John Chow,

If you make $180,000 a year on the Internet, how come Quantcast says your site only gets a pathetic 4,800 visitors a month?

I think I smell bullsh*t

Peace out

I think it's time to ?google up? johnchow.com up to #1 result for "John Chow". ;)

Ah finally! I'm glad Google is finally coming out with something to compete with Digg. Glad they are all competing with one another...lots of slapping around for sure!

I'm not saying Google is great, but the whole social media thing tends to kinda get political- in a junior high kind of way. A lot of things get Buried or Dugg on Digg that probably don't deserve it. With google being relied on for "quality" results, it seems to me cliques or "big guys" would just manipulate the results in their favor and to punish better results of competitors. I think search should be relevant, to the extent, possible, without being subject to the whims of sheep.

Google just wants everything these days...sheesh

-Mike

It will be interesting to see how the SEO landscape will change when Google actually incorporates this sort of data into their ranking algorithm.

Google is spreading itself too thin and losing its focus on search. As a result, I think you will see it, more and more, doing wacky things to try to keep up with the competition.

Stand back, and watch Google implode. It might be fun.

That's really great. Hopefully allowing users to voice their input will purify things and help to remove sites that are less relevant. At least on an individual scale.

I thought they had solved all of those problems with their New Ranking System :wink:

So is Google search now a social media network?