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Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More

Posted by Zonk on from the no-more-trusting-the-weekly-world-news dept.

mike slaven writes "In a follow-up to Tuesday's post about Google registering a trademark on the term TrustRank, an article on NewScientist explains how Google plans to track the credibility of news sources. The article also mentions that the patent on TrustRank is not limited to ranking just news stories: 'The patent also reveals that the same system could be roped in to rank other search results, not simply news. So sales and services could in the future be listed on the basis of price and the reputation of the company involved.'"

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  1. Trustrank? by awhelan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we know this for sure? Has google confirmed it? What is the trustrank of newscientist.com ?

  2. Slashdot's News Rotation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Google
    2. Apple
    3. Firefox
    4. Your Rights are being stolen!
    5. Microsoft sucks.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    1. Re:Slashdot's News Rotation by Taladar · · Score: 3, Funny

      You forgot:

      6. Ask /. : I have an important question concerning the future of my career and I ask you, the /. experts what to do.

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    2. Re:Slashdot's News Rotation by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

      Rinse. Repeat.

      Estimated TrustRank: Zero.

  3. Re:Trustranking Slashdot by kniLnamiJ-neB · · Score: 4, Funny
    if (SlashdotPage.search("Google"))
    { return(BEST_RANK_EVAR); }
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  4. TrustRank? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, bow to Our skunk protocol. You will give us your food, or we'll raise git on Our handstand and point our tail at you as the O'reilly spotted skunk found only in the most dense Amazon.com forests of the United Nigerian estates of America.

    If anyone is willing to accept these money orders, may you send me a laptop computer? The one I am using is falling to peices. Please contact me at Muabobu Mitchel "MM20012127@gmail.com", and I'll send you the money orders after you send two DELL laptops to 342 Voodoo, Pignuts, Nigeria Republic.

  5. Re:Patent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    algorithm (v, tr) - a sequence of operations to perform a task (modern, from "Al Gore, Rhythm", Albert Gore Jr (1946-?) being a popular politician and American Vice President (1992-2000) reknowned for his command of logic, co-joined with "Rhythm" to infer repetition.)

  6. In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    foxnews.com just disappeared entirely from the Internet.

    1. Re:In related news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Along with whitehouse.gov and number-10.gov.uk.

  7. Re:Trustranking Slashdot by alexhs · · Score: 3, Funny
    if (SlashdotPage.search("Google"))
    { return(BEST_RANK_EVAR); }
    error: `BEST_RANK_EVAR' undeclared (first use in this function)
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  8. Links And The Linking Links That Link To Them ... by rewinn · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... didn't Al Franken write that book already?

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  9. Is It in Beta? by lbmouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did they copyright "TrustRank" or "TrustRank Beta"?

  10. Re:Google to tell you who to trust? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 3, Funny
    your own common sense?

    Too much work. It's just easier to do what Google tells me to do.

  11. Re:Trustranking Slashdot by MarkByers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot takes a lot of articles and stories from a large number of websites, the editors check them for errors and ensure quality. In theory at least. ;)

    It is a lot easier for Google to index one site than to hand pick articles from all over the web, and do the editing and quality control themselves.

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  12. My Trustrank algorithms... by GPLDAN · · Score: 3, Funny

    IF author = 'Enderle' THEN TRUST=ZILCH AND BONEHEAD = 1.

    IF author = 'DiDio' THEN TRUST=NADA AND MICROSOFT_SHILL = 1

    IF topic = 'SCO' THEN RELEVENCE TO ANYONE = RELEVANCE TO ANYONE - 1000

    IF quoted_source = 'Marc Andressen' THEN WHO_FUCKING_CARES = 1

    IF news_organization = 'FOX' then BULLSHIT_IS_AFOOT = 1.

  13. Re:I see problems coming if Google uses trust rank by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, if the TLA is Obviously Fscked Up, does that make it TOFU?
    I worry about stuff like that...

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  14. Nice prediction! by MarkByers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just two stories later, 'Your Rights Online: The SCO Trial Through A New Lens'.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/04/29/1950245.shtml ?tid=123&tid=136&tid=88&tid=155

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