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It seems to me that google is in a weird way the old high school popularity contest recreated on its head. By privileging sites with a great number of inbound links, it makes certain popular sites rise to the top of the pile. While this may produce relevance, a worthy goal, it may [...]

Though search engines are fixated on meeting their users’ needs (they should be anyway), too little control is given to the user in determining their own fate. There should be many more tools for users allowing them to help give the engines data to fine tune their algorithms. For example, it should be [...]