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I was a little surprised that they haven't included anything about spam or gamification. One core advantage of pagerank is that it's (relatively) hard to get li
by gabemart 13y ago
I was a little surprised that they haven't included anything about spam or gamification. One core advantage of pagerank is that it's (relatively) hard to get links from high-authority websites. I can't force whithouse.gov or cnn.com to link to me. If you rely on time-spent-on-page from millions of users and treat everyone equally, how to you stop spammers from faking millions of hours spent reading their content using spoofing or bots?
- karli 13y agoWe have a lot of plans for this, but first we have to test how the searchresults are developing and of course we will adapt the ranking if we need too. Everyone is invited to help us in solving this!
- geraldbaeck 13y agoYes that could be a potential issue, expecially if you want to keep the data of the submitters as anonymous as possible. We are monitoring this closely, but honestly we don't have a single hammer solution against spam as always it needs my small steps. I will post some thoughts about it on our blog in the days. -Gerald Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.
- ufo 13y agoAnother problem is that if you just count time browsed then sites such as Facebook, Reddit and Kongregate get super high rankings.
- geraldbaeck 13y agoWe are counting the per unique URL, which is currently not a big advantage for the popular sites, because they are hosting so many URLs. There no domain based factor in it right now. -Gerald Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex