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Google Unsure About Letting Users Vote On Search
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."
Great.
They'll be removed for you, and nobody else. The great thing about collaborative filtering is that people who try to game the system, simply game themselves into a niche.
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This is what http://re.search.wikia.com/ is doing
You know that experts-exchange has to be showing google those answers to get indexed. Turn off javascript and then page down all the way to the bottom, past the excessively long "footer". All the text is down there, visible.
Yeah, that's why external links on Wikipedia are nofollowed. SEO spammers screamed blue murder, but Wikipedia's responsibility is to its readers, not to get a third party (SEO spammers) in good with a fourth party (Google). And the spam dropped when we did it.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
You don't even need to turn off JavaScript.