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>...explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results Democratic censorship.
by atomi 16y ago
>...explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results
Democratic censorship.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoWhat's the difference in Google censoring spam and users censoring spam?
- random42 16y agoOne is censorship. other is free-will.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoI'll pass along an anecdote from Gmail, which also uses explicit user feedback to label spam emails. Some people come to Gmail and say "Why did you block the [mass low-quality] email that I sent?" It's a pretty good answer if the reply is "Enough people marked your emails as spam that the emails were considered spam." The hope is that users are savvy enough that we can get a good signal out of the block signal.
- atomi 16y agoThis would only be a fair comparison if and only if you allow users the option to view the blocked search results.
- nolok 16y agoThat's like calling the current situation "technical censorship" since websites are ranked by how they perform on the SEO level. They won't ban sites from google, they will re-arrange who is shown higher (or lower) based on what the users like. Google has always been in the business of linking search terms with the corresponding informations that users want to see, this is no different.