There has never been an easier time to get your thoughts out there. For like $10 a month you can have a website, spout your opinions, and share your wisdom with the world. More and more people spend time reading things like blogs now, and these independent resources are playing a greater role in informing the culture. At the same time, this means that there has never been an easier time to spread false information.
One of the problems with trying to fight content redundancy over multiple sites is that if you don’t properly identify the original source of the content, you might penalize the author by wrongly labeling them as a redunandant instance. This has been pointed out by various sources as a possible problem with the current Google rules around duplicate content.Â
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What does a link mean? If you are going to have link relationships govern the logic of search applications, it seems you have to have a good answer to this deceptively simple question. In many situations it seems that we takes links as a kind of vote of confidence. There are lots [...]
Finding someone is a sometimes baffling endeavor. There are lots of great services now where you can spell out exactly what you want online and be matched up through various profile points to potentially compatible individuals. I found my partner before the online dating services were really developed, so I still remember when [...]
The quest for relevance in search results seems largely focused around determining user intention. Are you shopping? Are you looking for pictures? Are you just wasting time? In pinpointing intention to fulfill these needs though something is potentially lost. How many great sites have you found for example from ‘irrelevant’ [...]