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For people accustomed to the cold (if hidden) logic of purely algorithmic search, these are scary options. It means that your search results are, in part, up to the whims of capricious or crazy humans, or perhaps people trying to game the system to promote some sites while burying competitors.

That sounds a lot like what happens to “the cold logic of purely algorithmic” search engines already. Using PageRank and other link-affinity based algorithms Google, Yahoo! and others are gamed by “capricious or crazy humans” and those “promot[ing] some sites while burying competitors.” This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 3:03 pm and is filed under Post. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.