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Google handles content spam much like an email blacklist. What we need is a whitelist alternative, at least for searching spammy subjects like healthcare advic

Google handles content spam much like an email blacklist. What we need is a whitelist alternative, at least for searching spammy subjects like healthcare advice. How could this work? Well my company is trying something like that now, though it is early going. The easiest way to do this is by filtering the Web by domains instead of individual web pages. This alone removes several magnitudes of complexity.

Silhouette 13y ago
What we need is a whitelist alternative, at least for searching spammy subjects like healthcare advice. How could this work? One idea would be to have sites that concentrate on some topic(s) of interest, where people can submit interesting links they find directly, and where others who share those common interests can lend their support to promote the best material and share other related links they've found themselves. I know, I know, it's a radical concept, but I truly believe there's some potential there...
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mtrimpe 13y ago
And then you could annotate each website with a tag about what topic it is to help with search. Then you could maybe even organize them into publicly based on those tags. You would need a hierarchy of tags then though but that would give you a rather comprehensive, yet still curated, view of the web... ;)
aaronwall 13y ago
A couple issues with this: many topics tend to bleed across niches sites themselves will change purposes over time how sites are monetized (and other user experience choices) may change over time people buy and sell sites sometimes the desired information is only accessible on sites which are not particularly popular because they are not aligned with moneyed interests sometimes sites that are popular might be popular because they are inaccurate, conforming to an expected + desired bias if the whitelist is black and white, entities may change their approach after being well trusted (one of the elegant aspects of Panda is how it can remeasure over time)

Silhouette 13y ago

What we need is a whitelist alternative, at least for searching spammy subjects like healthcare advice. How could this work? One idea would be to have sites that concentrate on some topic(s) of interest, where people can submit interesting links they find directly, and where others who share those common interests can lend their support to promote the best material and share other related links they've found themselves. I know, I know, it's a radical concept, but I truly believe there's some potential there...

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mtrimpe 13y ago

And then you could annotate each website with a tag about what topic it is to help with search. Then you could maybe even organize them into publicly based on those tags. You would need a hierarchy of tags then though but that would give you a rather comprehensive, yet still curated, view of the web... ;)

aaronwall 13y ago

A couple issues with this: many topics tend to bleed across niches sites themselves will change purposes over time how sites are monetized (and other user experience choices) may change over time people buy and sell sites sometimes the desired information is only accessible on sites which are not particularly popular because they are not aligned with moneyed interests sometimes sites that are popular might be popular because they are inaccurate, conforming to an expected + desired bias if the whitelist is black and white, entities may change their approach after being well trusted (one of the elegant aspects of Panda is how it can remeasure over time)