I read about this yesterday but didn’t have the time to blog it, now we all know that google does whatever it thinks best to increase the quality of the results and in the effort to make that happen alot of webmasters hate google as well, Google has recently been testing out a social (digg-like) feature on the search results that lets you decide which result is the best and there fore assigns authority or a serp ranking in that manner..
To be honest when i heard that i thought of at least 2 ways to hi-jack those results by spending a couple bucks here and there..get a team..make them digg your site on the serps and bring it up to the #1 spot, the fact that google makes the decisions on its algo and generates results because of that algo is the only reason people actually use Google if that power (serp rankings) is given to the end-user then thats it, the death of google. The experiment page on it is located here.
There are already alot of social search engines out there some of them are..
I’m not sure, would Google really become a social search engine? Would it be good for webmasters?
December 1st, 2007 at 9:10 pm
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February 9th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
From what I can tell, when it comes to search engines, anything that has something to do with human edited is bad. It will be subjected to various biases.