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

What's with Wil Wheaton?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wil Wheaton is a fucking poseur. I can't stand how you fucktards get all drippy and excited every time that his name is mentioned. Ever since that stupid fucking Slashdot interview, all of you twerps have been ready to suck his dick. Don't you understand? It's all a sham! Your little hearts fluttered when he chose the EFF as his sponser on The Weakest Link, but the kid runs fucking Windows 2000. I mean, come on! Rob Malda had to run an anti-Microsoft "news" website for two years before anyone would believe that he only used Windows "for games," and you fall for Wil Wheaton's schtick immediately, without question? That's proof that the only intelligent posters left on Slashdot are us trolls.

He was a bad actor, and now he's a wannabe geek. The fact that he was a minor celebrity five years ago is immaterial. Maybe the new Linux mascot should be Alf! We should have Tony Danza on the new GNOME committee!

Wil Wheaton is such a moron that someone guessed his Slashdot account password and started crapflooding with it within a week. It's a newbie UID, by the way: Wil hadn't even heard of Slashdot until the interview!

It's almost fitting, though: both Linux and Wil Wheaton are immature hacks unsuited for work in the Real World. Both are yesterday's news. Both are pointless. Hey, maybe Wil does have a place on Slashdot!

-- The_Messenger

Re:What's with Wil Wheaton?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice offtopic Troll. This is Wil's account.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&am

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q= slashdot

-1 Irrelevant

Ranking of Jon Katz Posts on Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

10**30.

Take that Jon.

awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

mod this sucker up!

Re:http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient

[Anonymous Coward]

-1 Offtopic...

Ouch.

gee thanks /.

[jeffy124]

2001-11-27 23:08:39 Google experimenting with page ranking (articles,news) (rejected)

always love seeing my rejections show up a day later

Re:finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually the goatsex page isn't listed on google
because the person running the site has a robots.txt
file to prevent searchbots from adding that page.
Somewhat unfortunate to not be able to use google cache
to view that site when I'm unable to see it though.
Maybe I should save it to disk and view it when I
want to.

Cloaking?

[Mike Schiraldi]

Can someone give a explanation of "cloaking" that's not dumbed down to the point of uselessness?

Re:Great, but ..

[talesout]

A) Yes, I am a shithead. I am, and have been for quite some time, well aware of that.

B) I'm fucking bored since the only community actually worth participating in is down.

C) Actually reading comments before replying to them is against the rules. Jesus, next thing you know you'll be telling me I need to follow links!

D) Blah blah blah blah.

Re:Other neat (cough) features:

[Xerithane]

...to get people to remove the robots.txt file from their sites...

Bullshit you read it. The purpose of the email is to add a User-Agent: Googlebot to the robots.txt. Course you knew that didnt you? Be specific, otherwise you lie.