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Google did try this. I don't think it ever left the lab, but I used it for a while. I think they may have canned it; I just realized I haven't seen it in a whil
by cmurphycode 16y ago
Google did try this. I don't think it ever left the lab, but I used it for a while. I think they may have canned it; I just realized I haven't seen it in a while. It was called searchwiki. I think it was originally just supposed to apply to your own results, but I'm sure they analyzed the tendencies to see if it would've helful to use overall.
Honestly, such a system would be ridiculously easy to game with a botnet, so there needs to be significant work in the area beforehand.
- rhizome 16y agoI think the 'X" was live for maybe a month or two. I figured either or both that there was a resource/algorithm problem that prevented them from continuing in a fruitful way, or that it was a bit of user survey they could use in aggregate as preference weighting on the indexes/results. That is, not as a function of personal filtering, but to see if there were commonalities in what people considered to be bad sites. This may be further supported by the fact that the lifetime of the feature may have been too short for gamers to exploit it.