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

Cloaking?

[Mike Schiraldi]

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

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.