Google May Just Kill Itself Off With it's Social Media BS

Discussion in 'Google' started by airraid81, Jul 18, 2008.

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    Google is testing new features that will make it like Digg. No one besides an internet marketer or a Digg geek will actually waste their time voting for websites. People just want to find information. This will turn into a spam-fest and make their results very stupid. As it is, their results tend to be better than Yahoo! and MSN. Well, now they're doing something unnecessary that will hurt them and help their competitors.

    http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/07/17/new-google-search-preview/
     
    airraid81, Jul 18, 2008 IP
  2. C.Whyte

    C.Whyte Peon

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    Why are you so against that idea? I think it's actually pretty neat!
     
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    metros Notable Member

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    Hi,
    I don't really understand how it will affect Google engine?
    If they are doing DIGG similar website it will probably stand alone.

    Google ownz and will keep own us all for more dozens of years..
     
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  4. muncle

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    No, they do not. Being more popular does not necessary mean better.
     
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  5. airraid81

    airraid81 Active Member

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    I think it's gonna make the results worse, because they will be controlled by the social media elites, not by relevance.
     
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  6. kewlchat

    kewlchat Well-Known Member

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    Its going to suck because people who can manipulate it will rank high and those who cant wont be able to rank.

    Guess we should all start to learn how to cheat huh..:D
     
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  7. motherknucker

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    Comments below search rankings are a definite no-no.
    Lets see it must be better then what it looks
     
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  8. domainer_10

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    Wow that is crap. Results will be skewed more than ever if they do that and it will waste everyones hard work on SEO.
     
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  9. omeythehomie

    omeythehomie Active Member

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    Who said popularity was the reason? Do you even know how their search works?
     
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    Who said it wasn't?
     
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  11. GH Fever

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    Google does seem to be expanding too much. Too much can sometimes be too much. +X
     
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    tattoos Prominent Member

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    I remember reading about this a while back (can't remember where) but about the voting up and down, This effects results you see when logged in to your account.
    So it is sort of like a "personal filter" that does not affect the search results of others.. and will not work if you are not logged in to your account.

    As for the comments, well I only hope that there is some sort of way to have unfair comments left by competitors removed.

    Cheers
    James
     
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  13. wisdomtool

    wisdomtool Moderator Staff

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    Yeap true, Google started out well as a search engine and profited extremely well. To expand to related areas is good but has its dangers of losing their focus and concentrating too much on areas which are not their core competencies. It is too early to tell though.....

     
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