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A New Tack In Search Engine Formulation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the doh! dept.

An unnamed correspondent writes: "PC World reports that 'big-shot Web directories such as Yahoo and LookSmart' are missing thousands of the best links, which a new startup HotLinks has in in their directory by building it from people's bookmarks." This sounds like a smart idea (building from people's own bookmarks), but is it doomed to create in-breeding of links? That is, in a search engine based on bookmarks, will they be able to get enough "new blood"?

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  1. A _big_ security hole by mpskeeter · · Score: 5

    Hmmm.. I'm posting this as 'mpskeeter', though
    my username at slashdot is totally different. :)

    Guess how?
    www.slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userlogin&.. etc was
    a link on that site, enabling people to easily gather username/passwords.

    (Offcourse, bookmarking such a link is a _bad_ idea, it even says so on the login page) :)

  2. Oh Boy.... by Crewd · · Score: 5

    I can see it now, people spamming hotlinks.com with their bookmarks of goatse.cx and Bouillabaisse.