Comments on: Google: Algorithms Aren't the Only Answer

By: Morton’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Google 開發程式　防止人才流失

Morton’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Google 開發程式　防止人才流失 — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:16:32 +0000

[...] 員工是否會離開，恐怕不是只有演算法這麼簡單， Google 自己也早就說過 Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer 這樣的話了。 [...]

By: shiv

shiv — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:36:49 +0000

Really wiki google search is important for SERP as well as for PR .

By: So Robots Can’t Do Everything After All - GigaOM

So Robots Can’t Do Everything After All - GigaOM — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11:28 +0000

[...] has started allowing people to influence its search results directly, through its recently-launched Search Wiki features. Although the choices people make only directly affect the results they see, the search giant has [...]

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Google SearchWiki: Blessing or Boondoggle? «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Google SearchWiki: Blessing or Boondoggle? « — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:53:16 +0000

[...] When you do disagree, you really haven’t had any option to date but to suck it up and trudge along, pretending that you don’t care that Google’s search prioritization disagrees with your own. Now you can finally do something about your contrasting opinion thanks to Google SearchWiki. [...]

By: Google Search Wiki: Digg Type Feature That Promotes Stories You Like

Google Search Wiki: Digg Type Feature That Promotes Stories You Like — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:04:24 +0000

[...] changes are called SearchWiki, and are a dramatic departure from Google’s streamlined, algorithm-rules approach to search. It takes features from Digg to allow users to vote site results up or down, as well as [...]

By: voip

voip — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:52:22 +0000

This is more like a PeopleRank, and it will help Google to get insight on search results as long as they can hire the same amount of people reviewing the rankings by users. Nice try but I still believe in the good old PageRank, yes it does return poor results from time to time but it is still more trustworthy.

By: Google: Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer - GigaOM | kozmom //

Google: Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer - GigaOM | kozmom // — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:11:24 +0000

[...] details: Google: Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer – GigaOM [...]

By: Engago Team

Engago Team — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:58:04 +0000

If ever Google starts using the results from Google Wiki for their normal searches, they will just kill themselves as Adsense has no value anymore.

Then a company just hires a company (India or China or Pakistan) having their employees promoting all the website links on searches.

Could become a nice business fro low cost labor countries and would put all SEO comapnies out of business too;

By: Managed Services

Managed Services — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:31:55 +0000

i like those kind of searches they usually work pretty well and most things google does is good stuff

By: Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments

Markus Göbel's Tech News Comments — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:22:53 +0000

If the changes affect only my own searches, why would I want to make these wiki votes? Just in case for my next search on the same subject? That’s silly.

I am too lazy for this Web 2.0 stuff anyway. But I heard that Google uses its bookmark service to finetune its search results with human help. If that’s true, why wouldn’t they use these wiki-style functions too?

By: BoredSys Admin

BoredSys Admin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:02:10 +0000

From Official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html

“The changes you make only affect your own searches”

As much as I like it to be truly wiki style – it’s not, and about “rampant gaming and manipulation?” I think we can forget about it…

Now would google MIGHT be temped to use the results of voting after all – most likely they will, regardless of swearing it of (see above)

By: rohit

rohit — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0000

I think you are making an assumption that simple majority polling or ‘counting’ is used in this system. There are many different algorithms that can be utilized here and given the collection of data mining folks at that company, I would presume that simple ‘crowd sourcing’ is not what they are trying to fine tune…

By: Niraj

Niraj — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:51:14 +0000

When you have the amount of data that they have coming in, it makes it a lot easier to prevent gaming the system. You can check for things like how many items a person has rated (those that game would be trying to influence specific results, not a wide range), how many people are providing ratings and if this same group of people is influencing results, etc. Much like the system Digg has in place to prevent gaming.

The real downside to all this is how ugly it makes search result pages look. They need to shrink the icons or make them less conspicuous. With three fairly large icons per result, it really looks cluttered right now.