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> verify the owner of a site/page To what end? A verified real identity could post crap. Meanwhile an anonymous actor could publish gems. It comes down to how

> verify the owner of a site/page To what end? A verified real identity could post crap. Meanwhile an anonymous actor could publish gems. It comes down to how much trust you place in a given publisher; that currently goes by domain. The only thing verified identity buys you is the ability to trust snippets from that person published across a variety of untrusted domains. Meanwhile, analyzing per-account feedback patterns along with other session behavior significantly raises the bar for abuse.

ricardo81 5y ago
Would generally agree about the anonymous example. The general idea would be that people are harder to fake as a signal than links. A lot of sites associate social profiles with their domain/page. Something like a topical author Pagerank would be interesting, with endorsements. That too, of course could be bought and gamed. Pagerank was a game changer when it arrived, essentially acting as a 'vote' for a page, where some votes are more important than others. Associating votes with people (like the OP thought) is interesting.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  >The general idea would be that people are harder to fake as a signal than links. I don't think it would be as hard as you think. There are already "captcha farms" in India and Bangladesh - "Identity farms" would be just as simple to set up.
- weird-eye-issue 5y ago
  Very easy to game, actually it already is gamed in a couple different ways. One method - let's say you have a site about nutrition, you could find a doctor who wants to improve their search rankings (or find an agency that works with doctors to improve their rankings). Ask to put them on your website as the author or editor with a link back to their site. It's a win for both parties and Google can't really detect that since it isn't a two way link scheme.

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> verify the owner of a site/page To what end? A verified real identity could post crap. Meanwhile an anonymous actor could publish gems. It comes down to how

by d110af5ccf 5y ago

ricardo81 5y ago
Would generally agree about the anonymous example. The general idea would be that people are harder to fake as a signal than links. A lot of sites associate social profiles with their domain/page. Something like a topical author Pagerank would be interesting, with endorsements. That too, of course could be bought and gamed. Pagerank was a game changer when it arrived, essentially acting as a 'vote' for a page, where some votes are more important than others. Associating votes with people (like the OP thought) is interesting.
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  >The general idea would be that people are harder to fake as a signal than links. I don't think it would be as hard as you think. There are already "captcha farms" in India and Bangladesh - "Identity farms" would be just as simple to set up.
- weird-eye-issue 5y ago
  Very easy to game, actually it already is gamed in a couple different ways. One method - let's say you have a site about nutrition, you could find a doctor who wants to improve their search rankings (or find an agency that works with doctors to improve their rankings). Ask to put them on your website as the author or editor with a link back to their site. It's a win for both parties and Google can't really detect that since it isn't a two way link scheme.