Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/straight-out-of-left-field-google-experimenting-with-digg-style-voting-on-search-results/

by nickb • 19 years ago

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nextmoveone• 19 years ago

i remember voting/tagging image results not long ago. how is this different?

sosuke• 19 years ago

I like the idea of banning sites from my personal search results but I think if they turn it into a social setting (reddit, digg) it will have a lot of potential to be a really bad idea.

brlewis• 19 years ago

Sounds like they'll collect data that's extremely useful for ad targeting.

jkush• 19 years ago

Or, as a way to augment page rank. Or, as a way to recommend search results to you.

aston• 19 years ago

Most likely, this'll sit in Google Labs for all eternity, just like all of the other random and only semi-useful trinkets.

injesus• 19 years ago

Is it just me or are we about to see a new 5 cent an hour job crop up with 100,000 idian workers propping sites up. SEO 2.0 ..... Well if it ever comes to be that is.

zach• 19 years ago

Come on, everyone's had this idea.

Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

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