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Originally Posted by rowan
Was discussed a couple of months ago here...
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=848599
As I mentioned in the thread I doubt that Google could give much weight to user submitted data since it could be manipulated. Sites that have been around a long time could get quickly voted down (indefinitely?) while the spammers just register a new domain and vote it up. |
your looking at it in the wrong way. this voting and commenting is to enhance a users experience and surfing that will NOT be used in general SERP's when someone is not logged in. Google's algorithm will still handle the anonymous surfing portion of SERPs. this is an addition to the algorithms which will re-rank personal results if the user allows themselves to be tracked or are logged into some account which the SE's are trying to come to some sort of agreement on (Open ID, Windows Live ID, or something similar). in the future every person who allows themselves to be tracked with have very different SERP's from the general SERP's for anonymous surfers (this starts killing the SEO industry and SE spamming and making it less valuable if you put some thought into it.)
the main roadblock the SE's have is getting these personalized SE results to be used on a large scale by getting people to be logged in because of privacy issues people will be concerned about.