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Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search

Posted by timothy on from the go-thank-a-griefer dept.

narramissic writes "Google began running a live test last year that lets people rank and remove search engine results and comment on them. Testers were presented with different variations of the experiment, which the company first publicly detailed about two weeks ago in an official blog posting. For example, in one version of the test, people can only remove results, while in another they can append comments that only they can see, said Google software engineer Matt Cutts. But while implementing these features permanently would be a major step for Google in giving more participation to its users, the company remains undecided. 'It's a really fun experiment. I can't say for sure whether it will go live for everybody because we're always running a ton of experiments. Only some of those, the ones that are being very successful, are launched live for everybody,' said Cutts. In the meantime, Google is collecting data that offers some interesting search quality insights."

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  1. Great by Chrisq · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll remove slashdot and Microsoft.

  2. Moderation/Meta Moderation? by xanadu113 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how about a system with moderation and meta-moderation?

    Or has that been done already? =)

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  3. Why they are unsure..... by DrYak · · Score: 2, Funny

    After the Googol-th (10^100th) entry commented "Winged penis !", "MSN is pants !" or "It's the end of the world as we know it !", Google (GOOG) decided that, maybe this wasn't such a brilliant idea after all...

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  4. Re:Humanity groupthink? by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or what about nationalism from a very populous country? A website criticizing one of those countries could get voted down in to oblivion - even if it's right.

    In the case of Britain it would be the other way round. We love stories saying how bad it is but any suggestions that we don't have cause to winge would be voted down.

  5. Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search by Chrisq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search

    Why don't they put it to a vote?

    And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
    And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
    And if they are not sure if this is a good idea they could put it to a vote
    [Stack Overflow in googlePolicyRules(112)]

  6. Re:Great. by onion2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    I visited foobar.com and it's returning a 403 now. I can only assume it's slashdotted. That says a lot about penis size of slashdotters.

    And me, because I went there too.

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