It's an interesting experiment, but surely doomed to fail from a practical standpoint. Once deployed, even if the results have a higher potential for accuracy,

It's an interesting experiment, but surely doomed to fail from a practical standpoint. Once deployed, even if the results have a higher potential for accuracy, the new vector for abuse is enormous. Google downplays the role of links compared to the early days, but even then there were only so many ways to game links and most were pretty obvious if you knew where to look.