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Google Letting Users Rank Search Results

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-soon-to-a-net-near-you dept.

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.

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  1. Unscrupulous Businesses? by jaredcat · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Unscrupulous Businesses? by cloudmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

      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). :)

    2. Re:Unscrupulous Businesses? by Chundra · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

  2. Google Meta Mod? by rjamestaylor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there a provision for meta-modding at Google?

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  3. Re:Give Google some credit by zsmooth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, considering yahoo uses google... Yes?