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Popularity I think is important. But not at the expense of relevance. It's not a easy nut to crack.
by taxonomyman 14y ago
Popularity I think is important. But not at the expense of relevance. It's not a easy nut to crack.
- romaniv 14y agoWhy? If I search, say, for a game review, I don't care whether it comes from a popular website or a blog no one reads. In fact, the topmost websites are more likely to be biased, since they try to appease everyone and they also have strong relationships with publishers. The blog no one reads is nearly guaranteed to be honest (if not well-written). This holds true for most topics I can think of. Moreover, if I ever need to read Wikipedia and such, I already know about those websites, and I can go there directly - no need to search. Shouldn't web search engines act like discovery tools?
- __alexs 14y ago> Shouldn't web search engines act like discovery tools? If your business model is based on advertising that depends on masses of page views to generate value, then no. You want to be as generally useful as possible so that e.g. people use you as an (extremely inefficient) DNS service. (Google Labs has a single optional feature available for search. Perhaps their arch doesn't make 20% or Labs projects a good fit for plugging in extra fancy search features?)