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It's not about surfacing organic human content, it's about only indexing organic human content. The problem is automated indexing. So long as indexing works acc
by ysavir 4y ago
It's not about surfacing organic human content, it's about only indexing organic human content. The problem is automated indexing. So long as indexing works according to defined rules, the advantage will be to those able to shape their content to those rules, and the spammers and scammers will win.
An idea I've had for a few years is making a social-network based index engine. The only pages that get indexed are pages that users themselves mark as worth indexing, and the only pages returned in your results are pages that were marked for indexing by people you added to your circles, or the people in their circles, or the people in those circles, etc (probably up to 5 or 6 degrees of separation).
- kmeisthax 4y ago...so, blogrolls?
- ysavir 4y agoNot familiar with blogrolls, but not quite. The idea is more to have standard search engine user experience, but with the requirement that each result is vetted by someone the user trusts, or trusts by proxy.
- kthejoker2 4y ago> Not familiar with blogrolls Not directed at you specifically but this is the actual problem. We already had a good system for these things. Delicious, blogrolls, RSS, the folksonomy ..
- nyokodo 4y ago> up to 5 or 6 degrees of separation So basically everyone on earth?
- ysavir 4y agoAlright, 2 or 3!
- bornfreddy 4y agoSounds like a great idea, execution will be key...