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That is a completely ridiculous point to make. Come on, be serious here. What would be the benefit to anyone except for spammers, if Google open-sourced their a
by swombat 17y ago
That is a completely ridiculous point to make. Come on, be serious here. What would be the benefit to anyone except for spammers, if Google open-sourced their algorithms? It's a lose-lose option. Google loses some money, we lose a lot of search engine accuracy, and spammers gain new ways to screw around with search results.
And does anyone gain from it? Not really. At this point, Google's supremacy is due just as much to their hardware know-how, to their market leader position, and to their excellent brand, as it is to their search algorithms. It won't help any competing search engines - just spammers.
- roc 17y agoThe stated goal isn't to help other search engines; it's to get the community to help Google improve, for the good of all its users. The theory goes: if you let more people look at the algorithm, they can suggest better answers than Google alone, to thwart the spammers who are gaming the system either way. But I suspect the real goal has more to do with the deep suspicion that Google can or does do a significant bit of hand-tweaking. And these people want to force the algorithm into the open to either end or curtail that.
- jacquesm 17y agoI'll believe that when I see open source achieve a conclusive victory against email spam. Spam:email = 90% or worse in search results it is closer to the opposite. I'm sure once the open source community actually manages to do this and prove the 'many eyes' doctrine applies to more than just security and bug fixes that many doors will open.