Wikipedia’s founder has announced a search engine allowing users to
control the search results in a way similar to how digg works.
I dabble in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and I expect a huge shift
if the other major search engines such as google and yahoo adopt
similar models.
Typically people will improve their rankings by getting more sites to
link to them and by page layout, however allowing a human to rank
a site against a given term is going to make these sorts of traditional
SEO methods less relevant. This will cause SEO companies to start
paying for people’s ‘ranks’ much like how people pay for digg’s, or how
people are paid to click on ads. Additional
information on wikipedia search engine can be found below. Somehow I
suspect those sites with a lack of quality content that have deep
pockets
are going to be the people to win the rank wars. Oh and did I mention
amazon is backing them?
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