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And the reason why these small communities are "more trustworthy" is moderation by actual humans. This is always the secret sauce. Google's biggest problem is t
by TremendousJudge 5y ago
And the reason why these small communities are "more trustworthy" is moderation by actual humans. This is always the secret sauce. Google's biggest problem is that they think they can (and that they must) solve everything with automation, but any automated system can be defeated by a sufficiently motivated human.
- TillE 5y agoThis is an excellent point. There's the actual moderators who are, at minimum, filtering out spam. And then there are the human users voting, which I assume carries over in one way or another to Google's search ranking.
- ricardolopes 5y agoThis is it. If you let the machines do their thing unsupervised, you're creating an optimisation game someone is going to win. I honestly believe the only way for a search engine to be as valuable as Google was years ago is to let human knowledge drive more decisions. Maybe closer in spirit to what a web app store would look like, or closer to the categorisation Yahoo did. Not to browse by category (though even that would be refreshing at this point), but to better select the most relevant search sources.
- LoveGracePeace 5y ago"any automated system can be defeated by a sufficiently motivated human" That is exactly the whole problem. SEO SPAM is a symptom. The problem, is that Google went all in on ML and AI. I've been exposed to ML and AI going back to the early 1990's. It always ends up the same, stale sterile outcomes. Google can fix this by someone doing an intervention with Pichai and concincing him that we are several decades away, still, from any meaningful use of ML and AI, get back to making search good. On a positive note, Google does work well today as a spell checker.