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It will be interesting to see how this turns out. It seems to me that it would just make search results even worse in quality. Clearly if it assigns extra wei
by NathanKP 17y ago
It will be interesting to see how this turns out. It seems to me that it would just make search results even worse in quality.
Clearly if it assigns extra weight to stuff written by your friends and contacts then it will be harder to find stuff written by experts and legitimate trustworthy sources. Not that friends can't be experts of legitimate and trustworthy, but personally I'd rather see results from known professionals rather than seeing results from someone who I just happened to "friend".
Most social network friendships are completely meaningless exchanges so using those connections in search results is also going to meaningless.
But I may be wrong. Does anyone else have a differing opinion?
- idm 17y agoI definitely put extra weight on my friends' opinions, if only because I can interrogate them about what they've said. If I want more information, I know how to directly contact them, and I also feel like I'm building context for the next time we interact. Since we're already connected, I think there is less of a barrier for them to reply to me. Maybe this has to do with the size of my network (it's comparatively small) but I have a fairly rich shared history with the majority of people I'm connected to, so I can see how this feature will be really compelling.