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Yeah, there is a dilemma. To get a wider audience, you need very good search results. But if you search quality depends on the amount of users, how do you get i
by nicce 2y ago
Yeah, there is a dilemma. To get a wider audience, you need very good search results. But if you search quality depends on the amount of users, how do you get in there?
People like power, that keeps them moderating (looking at Facebook groups). What kind of reward system works here?
- chongli 2y agoWell the baseline search quality should not rely on users. It should be great out of the box until spammers begin targeting it directly. Relying on users to moderate should happen organically as the number of users grow, which ideally would be timed to offset the growth in spam targeted at the engine.
- nicce 2y agoThe issue is that it needs the really really good on baseline before people start switching from other services. But if you are able provide better baseline than others, then you might not even need the users to be "better. With users, you would be then exceptional.
- nine_k 2y agoI suppose services like Gmail benefit a lot from users who mark the occasional spam letter in their inboxes. While each such marking is inconsequential, correlated over many users, they allow to detect new and unusual waves of spam, and to start filtering them for everyone. A similar mechanism could work for a search engine. It would be harder to game if it required high karma (many other users matching your judgment before it starts to count), and a paid account, like with Kagi.