Sorry, I missed what the article was trying to say... am I correct that the TL;DR version is "social search" ?
Nope, the TL;DR version is "turn G+ users into a better crawler/algorithm"
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#22>What you could do if you were Google and had their databases?
Try to predict election results and then try to influence them. Not exactly "Do no evil" I'll admit. Imagine what Google PR could do for politicians with access to what people are talking about, watching, browsing and chatting about in their social network. With their Ad technology they're already half way there.
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#23> a number of guide users were followed closely
No. No following people around on the Internet to make search results "better".
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#24Interesting, but I don't think Google wanted to go social to decrease the damages of link spamming. People already do social network spamming. There are plenty of sites where you can pay for a certain number of +1's or likes. Using a combination of inputs, social interaction, page links, keywords, they can achieve a better overall ranking algorithm, which is probably one reason they wanted to go social. However I thi…
Given that the +1's are tied to an (active) user identity tied to multiple Google products, it should not be difficult to filter out the spammers.
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#25The web's flaws propagate to Google. They can only fix so much. There's a lot of room to improve on content publishing and sharing.
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#26DROP TABLE
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#27Sorry, I missed what the article was trying to say... am I correct that the TL;DR version is "social search" ?
Nope, the TL;DR version is "turn G+ users into a better crawler/algorithm"
Thanks; I guess I see that as the same thing (guessing that Google sees social search as an improvement).
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#28I would build the biggest NoSQL datastore in the world. I would use all public data - anything that could be searched and I would invite other companies to put their data on my cloud. THEN we would find a cure for cancer.
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#29I presume this gives me access to all of their servers too. In which case I would mine the remaining Bitcoin. Mainly because I think Bitcoin is a stupid idea and this would help highlight that sentiment.
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#30> people that relied on links will now rely on your search engine reducing the value of links between sites
Is this really a given? I've never heard this before, not sure what it is that it means. Is the number of links generated by non-SEO sources falling (or not rising proportionally with SEO links)?