1) I completely agree that it's an extremely impressive feature. 2) Tremendous amounts of bad data is far less desirable than "only a lot" of good data. The da

1) I completely agree that it's an extremely impressive feature. 2) Tremendous amounts of bad data is far less desirable than "only a lot" of good data. The data as they're collecting it now is simply untrustworthy;. It essentially is a measure of "are these people connected at all?", which is completely redundant to other information they already have. 3) The page you link to is pretty cool. It seems like they are doing that. Why is it hidden on a "skills" page, which probably receives orders of magnitude less visibility than the individual pages? More broadly, though, you suggest that the goal is to create user profile depth: > They are trying to increase the depth and value of your LinkedIn profile by strengthening the graph of data connections, and encouraging users to enter more skills data into your own profile. They are also trying to increase engagement amongst their user base. I would counter that this is only a partially correct view. LinkedIn is trying to increase the value of their site, both to the individual looking to connect and the company looking to hire. What I suggest would make this feature significantly more useful for companies looking to hire. LinkedIn should always be pursuing a number of goals in parallel, and saying that "this feature doesn't need to satisfy X because it's intended for Y" gives them way more slack than they should have.