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Isn't it because the "pagerank" of your page increases by how many people "like" your page instead of how many other sites link to your page. This really is qu
by nissimk 16y ago
Isn't it because the "pagerank" of your page increases by how many people "like" your page instead of how many other sites link to your page. This really is quite interesting because it's easier to press Like than it is to write an intelligent post with a lot of words that links to the site that you like. The downside seems that every site has to buy in and put the like button on their site, but it looks like it's already too late and there's not much choice.
- abstractbill 16y agoIt's still easy to game, because there's no "dislike" button. Show 50% of your visitors a really valuable awesome page, and the other 50% the viagra spam. You'll get a ton of "likes" from the awesome page, and hence a lot of traffic for the spam.
- jawn 16y agoFurthermore, with fake accounts, it becomes even easier to game facebook pagerank.
- calcnerd256 16y agoUnless they implement trust. "Your friends [in this friend list] like these pages today."
- sanj 16y agoYou're assuming that Facebook's ranking algorithm is incredibly naive and is only counting the raw number of likes. What if you add in whether you're friends with anyone who liked it. Or at least a few degrees away. Facebook already finds and deletes fake accounts. Trust me -- I've had my test accts blown away regularly!
- jawn 16y agoAll good points, but in all of your scenarios having fake/stolen accounts would still allow you to game the system. Friend networks can be staged/stolen just as easily as an account.
- what 16y agoSure, but couldn't all the spammers band together and "like" each other's pages? Or set up a bunch of dummy accounts to like their own pages. Plus I'm not too sure about the types of pages that will get liked and indexed. I haven't logged into Facebook in a ages, but I don't remember people liking or sharing links for things that I would ever use a search engine to find. But that could just be me.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoPresumably you can already buy "likes" from someone who has amassed a large number of FB accounts? If not then it won't be long at all.
- troymc 16y agoCarrying that one step further: why buy "likes" from someone if you can steal them? Maybe the headline should be: Facebook Offers New Incentive for Identity Theft