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SeaTurtle's avatar

Should Google-search have a vote option?

Asked by SeaTurtle (1179points) March 25th, 2011

or does it have one already?
I’m seeing many more unofficial sponsored pages on my google searches these days,
Wouldn’t it be a good move if we could vote on the relevancy of our page to make Google more concise?

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XYZZYtja's avatar

I think no, that is when you are searching for something, and you vote yes, other people might need other information… What makes what they’re looking for harder to find…
I guesse it’s possible with more general subjects people are looking for, but that already is the case isn’t it?

Can be that I am mistaken.

BarnacleBill's avatar

I would not want other people’s idea of relevancy intruding on my seaches. Many people lack discernment.

marinelife's avatar

I do not think that a popular vote is a good idea for ranking relevance. What if the owner of a page “stuffed the ballot box” just to up the ranking of their page?

jerv's avatar

No. I can think of so many ways that could go wrong.

gorillapaws's avatar

There already is a kind of voting built-in I believe. They time the intervals between when you click on a link and if you return and click on a different one for the same search. If you’re obviously not finding what you want, that interval will be very short and I’m sure that data gets incorporated into the rankings somehow.

the100thmonkey's avatar

Define “unofficial sponsored pages”.

XYZZYtja's avatar

@the100thmonkey Well I guess managers on the net, who want to rank up fast. Are going to pay some money to people who do not have money, and then those people will click on “This is Spam or “unofficial sponsored pages” off the opponents managers… So they get to be on top on google some more. Yeh business is hard to keep up for this time, -see the economic disaster.

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