Obviously Google is not perfect, but, and this is important - its highly trusted and has to some extent a fiduciary responsibility. According to them, the most important website one should visit to know, understand mensch - is an empty page. Why is wikipedia so highly regarded, even in the cases where it has either 0 or bad data, considered authoritative?
Okay - from the perspective of the term mensch, this is a dumb topic - but from the perspective of Google and findability and authoritative sources of information, this is really important - what else is being missed? Where else is google screwing up is the question that comes to mind. On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Dennis Deacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will, I would agree that Google is not perfect. However, in this case, > the blame cannot be solely on Google. Wikipedia's use of placeholder > pages to encourage contribution within its community is highlighting > a "bad data in, bad data out" issue. > > Based on Google's PageRank algorithm, Wikipedia naturally ranks high > due to the number of links into it. Google then views Wikipedia as an > authoritative source. > > Not perfect, but in most cases, pretty darn good. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32046 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.128 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
