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>There's also a growing self-promotion problem. The entire Internet is going this way. I overestimated its inherent resistance to gaming/doctoring. For exampl
by abandonliberty 12y ago
>There's also a growing self-promotion problem.
The entire Internet is going this way. I overestimated its inherent resistance to gaming/doctoring.
For example, product reviews are increasingly unreliable. Even on platforms that require purchase, like Amazon. Meanwhile specialist sites like tomshardware and anandtech seem overwhelmed.
- Animats 12y agoI know, I know. I wrote "Social is bad for search, and search is bad for social" on that subject back in 2011. http://www.sitetruth.com/doc/socialisbadforsearch09.pdf http://www.sitetruth.com/doc/socialisbadforsearch09.pdf Spamming social to get higher search rankings is easy, cheap, and hurts both search and social, as blogs, forums, and discussions fill up with promotional crap no one wants to read. I work on web spam and bogus ad detection, which means I'm painfully aware of the ocean of promotional crap out there. I'd like to see Wikipedia not go that way.