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I wanted to say exactly that. My friends are not like me. Even the friends I have that are software developers are not interested in the same things. Heck, even
by bad_user 13y ago
I wanted to say exactly that. My friends are not like me. Even the friends I have that are software developers are not interested in the same things. Heck, even the people I work directly with aren't interested in the same things.
> I want my search results to be ranked with signals from other relevant people... and I don't know who these people are.
This is were you're partially wrong. Personally I know many people that I'd like to be included in my search ranking as signals. The problem is - those people are only a subset of the people that I follow on Twitter or Google+.
The problem with "Follow" or "Add as Friend" or whatever these social networks are calling it - is that some people are more interesting than others. Some people I follow simply because they are my friends. While other people I follow because I'm interested in whatever they've got to say. And this is the problem that Google should solve.
- digisth 13y agoI wonder if adding an "authoritativeness/trust" rank to each user you follow would help with this. Whenever you'd add someone on a social network, you'd be asked to choose a number between 1-5 or something that tells the SN's recommendation system how much weight they should be given when choosing stories to show you or whatever.