Google Letting Users Rank Search Results

Myriad writes "C|Net News is running an article about Google testing out a new system which would let users rank pages. From the article, 'Two weeks ago, Google began quietly testing a Web page voting system that, for the first time on a large scale, could eventually let Web surfers help determine the popularity of sites ranked by the company's search engine.'" As someone who has a lot of experience with systems where users self rate content, let me just wish Google the best of luck. Especially since for many unscrupulous businesses, ratings in search engines directly translate to dollars.

Comments

Unscrupulous Businesses?

[jaredcat]

Well as the marketing director for an unscrupulous business, let me be the first to say how much I am looking foward to being able to rate my competitors' websites on one of the most popular search engines.

Re:Unscrupulous Businesses?

[cloudmaster]

As someone who writes perl sripts for your competitors, let me be the first to say how much I'm looking forward to automating the task of rating our competitors (and ourselves). :)

Re:Unscrupulous Businesses?

[Chundra]

Dear sirs,

As a social misfit, disgruntled programmer, and militant loather of all things e-business, let me assure everyone that I will personally make your businesses appear on fuckedcompany in one (1) month.

Thank you.

Google Meta Mod?

[rjamestaylor]

Is there a provision for meta-modding at Google?

I want this job

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course people are speculating how this will be used by bad companies to increase their visibility.

All i can say is...

I WANT THAT JOB!!!!

To sit on the web all day increasing my company's rating. And if any of you programmers get a silly idea of writing a script to automate it, you'll put me out of a good job, and I will be very unhappy, and will have to return to browsing the web INSTEAD of working...

Re:Give Google some credit

[zsmooth]

Well, considering yahoo uses google... Yes?

Re:Great, but ..

[g1zmo]

Maybe this could be incorporated into Microsoft's punishment !

Judge: OK, Bill, in addition to spreading Windows more effectively than finely ground anthrax in a crop duster over Los Angeles, you are also going to have to allow Google to integrate their services with your .Net framework.

Bill: Damn, I'm good.