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>> And it so turns out that finding and surfacing the best content aligns well with the number of people who link to that content, It's like saying Burger King
by petra 7y ago
>> And it so turns out that finding and surfacing the best content aligns well with the number of people who link to that content,
It's like saying Burger King offers "the best" food, because it's popular.
And there's not really a reason(besides a little bit of money) for Google, The global monopoly, to insist on doing that. It's not that hard to have an easy option for quality content.
For example: Google's forum search, which was cancelled.
- crumblingbreads 7y agoDepend on how you define "best". For me it's value, and Burger king is up there.
- kristianc 7y agoI'm reminded of what Rory Sutherland once said about McDonalds: the one guarantee that you get with McDs is that it isn't going to make you ill.
- jacquesm 7y agoThe one thing I can guarantee you is that McD's makes me ill. Every bloody time I ate there, mostly on the road in the US where there is nothing else for a long way around. Only the fries are safe.
- drdeca 7y agoWell, at least everyone agrees that it is _consistent_.
- daurnimator 7y agoNot always :( the maccas on the freeway stop near me has horrible chicken nuggets, while the one in the local shopping centre has good ones.
- chrshawkes 7y agowho has not had the bubble guts a time or two from Mickey D's?
- p1necone 7y agoThis argument might fly better if people were posting actually good but small news sources as examples. Lets not pretend that Breitbart or Infowars have any sort of integrity here.
- petra 7y agoFor news stories that are posted on high quality forums(like hn or /r/science), offering a forum link seems like good value.
- ratata 7y agoThe analogy doesn't work because all the content on google is free to users. I would argue that in a world where 5-star restaurants cost the same as Burger King, they would experience more demand than Burger King.
- untog 7y ago> It's like saying Burger King offers "the best" food, because it's popular. Not really; no-one goes to Burger King because they think they are getting the "best" food. They think they are getting convenient, affordable and quick food. You certainly could argue that Burger King is enormously popular because it is very good at offering those three attributes.