Good day everyone!
I've been thinking for the last monthes how can we separate all the
information in the web into different classes of helpfulness and
classify it, which could bring us into an era of classified,
attributed and peoples' opinion - related searching.
The main trick here comes from so called user feedback principle. In
youtube, wordpress, QnA sites, this Google community or many where
else, a user has an ability to give back his opinion by setting a star-
rank, submitting a thumb-up or "Yes/NO" vote. Now since Google has a
toolbar for ie or Chrome as a stand-alone browser, it is possible for
user to send a feedback on specific URL to a google database by simply
clicking on a button and then selecting some options, thus: a)
providing quality and specifics of the resource and b) providing user
preferences to Google, so that it can improve its quality of service
towards the user as well as help other users find the most populare an
helpful rsources in the web.
Now bringing all this into a categorized style.
Location: Google Toolbar or/and Google Chrome menu.
Target: user's currently displayed page's URL or URL of a specific
link on a page - any page on a site or link to a file.
Action 1: user clicks on a specific button in tools or on a specific
context menu item for a link on a web page.
Action 2: user sets his feedback in a popup window appeared.
Action 3: user submits the feedback.
Submitters: users from "open web feedback community"
Survey parameters:
- simple mode:
- simple star rating (-10 ... +10);
- type of resource (education, entertainment, news, ets - must
be picked from a tree view)
- additional user-defined attributes and their values (like
tags in blogs, but valued and packed in trees also, e.g. "security
\has_virus" or "attitude\cool" or "suggestes_frames\min_age:13" and
"suggestes_frames\min_age:18" or "law
\violates_copyright_of:Elton_John")
- complex mode:
- valid info rating (-10 ... +10) - is info trustful or
misleading;
- education rating (-10 ... +10) - good resource for learning
or it spoils people;
- quality of information (-10 ... +10) - e.g. wiki can be 10,
some yello pages are 3, violent sites and links to files with negative
images are -10. This one can be used as star ratig in simple move.
- positiveness of information (-10 ... +10) - new reports
about catastrophies as well as any depressing issues can be -5,
inventions of cancer cures +8 etc.
- quality of presentation (0 ... +10) - how well is site
formatted, its browsing and reading comfortability;
- banner annoying level (-10 ... 0) - how deep you are
disturbed by advertisements;
- and on..on..on....
- type of resource (education, entertainment, news, ets - must
be picked from a tree view)
- additional user-defined attributes and their values (like
tags in blogs, but valued and packed in trees also, e.g. "security
\has_virus" or "attitude\cool" or "suggestes_frames\min_age:13" and
"suggestes_frames\min_age:18" or "law
\violates_copyright_of:Elton_John")
Awards:
- sites as well as links which get more than +6 of overal
rating and have more than 1000 votes can be considered useful and be
given Google quality mark
- +7 and 100000 votes - bronze order
- +8 and 1000000 votes - silver order
- +9 and more with 10000000 - gold order etc.
- to make it possible for sites to get the quality mark,
spesific presentation area must exist where the community could
operatively review them all.
Web levels: depending on usefulness of each resource, the internet can
then be divided into "habitation levels" from dirty and harmful to
healthful and inspiring.
Search:
- can now have category and option and "rated-in-top".
- can be attributed (with lots of attribute parameters, picked
from attribute trees and their value frames).
- be customized not to show unwanted info.
Brower:
- can filter links to unwanted classes of resources so that
e.g. parents could be assured that their children will be safe from
seeing any dirt.
Web developers:
- can display ratings of posts on their pages via Google API
(better if as many people as possible participate in feedbacking)
- can delete harmful stuff from their sites automatically via
Google API (e.g. when rating for a page, image or any other file on a
site drops below 0 with more than 100 votes)
Google engine:
- based on gathered data, can automatically assign better
ratings to sites, that have the same resources and put in black listes
sites, containing malicious links and violent content.
- can display ads and search results with more gentle approach
to a person's mentality, taking into account his or her attitudes.
Thus the internet must become more people-oriented, people-regulated
and safe, I suppose. That is highly needed now and must greatly
improve Google's popularity and prosperity of all of us as well.
I've got many other thoughts, how to benefit from his feedback
concept, its a vast field for inventing!
Thanx to all of you, who read all this post! I wouldn't write so much
if I haven't been so exceted with this idea.
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