Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results

[nickb]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/straight-out-of-left-field-google-experimenting-with-digg-style-voting-on-search-results/

[injesus]

Is it just me or are we about to see a new 5 cent an hour job crop up with 100,000 idian workers propping sites up. SEO 2.0 ..... Well if it ever comes to be that is.

[aston]

Most likely, this'll sit in Google Labs for all eternity, just like all of the other random and only semi-useful trinkets.

[zach]

Come on, everyone's had this idea.

[sosuke]

I like the idea of banning sites from my personal search results but I think if they turn it into a social setting (reddit, digg) it will have a lot of potential to be a really bad idea.

[brlewis]

Sounds like they'll collect data that's extremely useful for ad targeting.

[jkush → brlewis]

Or, as a way to augment page rank. Or, as a way to recommend search results to you.

[nextmoveone]

i remember voting/tagging image results not long ago. how is this different?