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Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results (techcrunch.com)
Google has confirmed to Search Engine Land that it is testing a feature allowing users to rate movies or TV shows directly in the search results interface. "We're currently experimenting with the feature but have nothing to announce at this time," a Google spokesperson said. TechCrunch reports: Unlike other movie and TV rating platforms, Google's feature is not on a scale from one to five but instead offers a binary choice: like or dislike. Information about weather, ticket purchasing options and more used to be available on unique, individual websites. Today, however, Google has incorporated this information and functionality into the search results layer of its own service. Within the movie ratings feature, users will also be able to see the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb ratings for the title, as they always have. You can view a screenshot of the rating system here.
Google's rating system? Definitely a "dislike".
soon google will be all that there is
Seriously, unless the personal reputation of the raters as actual human beings is taken into account, then the system will be worthless. There has to be symmetry between the reliability of the raters for their ratings to have any reliability.
Almost all of these systems get polluted by gamesters and trolls, often using sock puppets. I'm not saying that anonymity needs to be eliminated, but if you do elect to be anonymous, then your opinions should be discounted as not really representing your public position. However in a situation like this, I do think that anonymous raters should be discounted to zero.
However, I've made basically the same argument as regards fixing the Slashdot moderation system. Haven't noticed any progress yet.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Let me - and everyone else - rate the search results themselves; and let us see how they've been rated!
I get really tired of highly-placed search results which don't contain any actual information. Some onerous sites are really good at gaming the results returned by Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and the rest. But being able to see, at a glance, that 50 people gave a search result only one out of five stars would let me know not to waste time clicking on that particular link.
#DeleteChrome
Please comment.
Google, the R+D arm of the NSA, is involved in more than just spying on the planet- mining that spy data- and designing autonomous murder machines for the US military.
The 'fake news' hoax that followed the defeat of the depraved criminal war-monger, Clinton, encorages Google to consider active 'soft' and 'hard' censorship again. Didn't work out too well last time when Google tried to censor all adult content from blogs hosted on its blog service. Americans prize their sexual adulthood too well. So now Google thinks that getting sheeple used to editorial ratings for sites will allow them to ZERO RATE 'undesirable' sites - and then later the users can be given the option (like here on the zionist run Slashdot) to depriate hits with too low a rating. Why do you think the scumbags that own Slashdot use that method? You really believe the excuse about span and off-topic?
Simple grooming to an external unaccountable judgement system that sheeple then think will improve their searching/reading experience. And of course, the sheeple are told (as here) FALSELY that the judging is done by their peers- hilarious!
Google's feature is not on a scale from one to five but instead offers a binary choice: like or dislike.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
>You can view a screenshot of the rating system here.
In that screenshot it gives a 96% "google users" rating but it is under the "dislike" button so at first I thought nobody liked Westworld.
What Google needs to do is make it easy for me to default removing all Pinterest results without me having to add '-site:pintrest.com' to my search string. It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's still way too prevalent for my liking, especially in image searches.
--- Keep the choice with the user..