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> I'd love to see a search axis for websites with obvious monetary incentives. Fascinating idea in theory, how would you do it in practise? Three concrete exam

> I'd love to see a search axis for websites with obvious monetary incentives. Fascinating idea in theory, how would you do it in practise? Three concrete examples I’d be interested in putting on that axis: 1. I publish articles on my website to encourage people to pay for my consulting services. 2. Sites like dev.to, Quora, and StackOverflow. The authors aren’t necessarily doing it for financial reward, but the site is. 3. The Guardian explicitly encourages people to pay for its website, whilst also making it freely available. Where do you put these sites on an axis of “rewarded monetarily”?

kzrdude 5y ago
Wikipedia while the donation banner is visible? :)
hansvm 5y ago
In practice any solution is probably good enough so long as it actually differentiates those use cases. Just move the slider to the region of the web you're interested in :) Spitballing a little, if I had to manually put those on an axis I might rank them as: (0) Sites like the Guardian that think their content is good enough to stand on its own and ask for payment (I personally want that search slider to be able to remove/include sites trying to monetize things tangential to my query, and while the Guardian pretty clearly cares about money they're also likely trying to monetize the thing I actually want to see if they show up in my search results). (1) A tech-focused personal website that incidentally also has your CV and consulting rates. (2) Sites like StackOverflow where the user-generated content is probably similar to what it would be outside of the site, but a money-focused censorship/environment has filtered the nature of that content. (3) An AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management site self-linking all of its articles and prominently displaying your AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management consulting availability. Not everyone has my personal preferences. I could definitely imagine somebody wanting all of those to be some kind of roughly the same monetary reward ranking and maybe want a separate axis/categorization describing the type of monetization.

kzrdude 5y ago

Wikipedia while the donation banner is visible? :)

hansvm 5y ago

In practice any solution is probably good enough so long as it actually differentiates those use cases. Just move the slider to the region of the web you're interested in :) Spitballing a little, if I had to manually put those on an axis I might rank them as: (0) Sites like the Guardian that think their content is good enough to stand on its own and ask for payment (I personally want that search slider to be able to remove/include sites trying to monetize things tangential to my query, and while the Guardian pretty clearly cares about money they're also likely trying to monetize the thing I actually want to see if they show up in my search results). (1) A tech-focused personal website that incidentally also has your CV and consulting rates. (2) Sites like StackOverflow where the user-generated content is probably similar to what it would be outside of the site, but a money-focused censorship/environment has filtered the nature of that content. (3) An AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management site self-linking all of its articles and prominently displaying your AI on Kubernetes in AWS cost management consulting availability. Not everyone has my personal preferences. I could definitely imagine somebody wanting all of those to be some kind of roughly the same monetary reward ranking and maybe want a separate axis/categorization describing the type of monetization.