Comment Re:Privacy Issues (Score 4, Interesting) 789
>> What better way to rank a page's relevancy than by determining which links are chosen by the searchers for a given keyword or set of keywords?
> bad side effect...
> page 1 & 2 search results will firmly become engrained there by this method as everyone clicks on the top few results normally
That could be a problem if the results fed directly into the page rank. But it would seem more logical to use this to cull bad links from the top 10. If people consistenly ignore the first link for a particular search, but instead click on the second or third links, it would be a good indication that the top link isn't very good and should be moved down the list, which could in turn allow a new link to bubble up to the top 10.
> bad side effect...
> page 1 & 2 search results will firmly become engrained there by this method as everyone clicks on the top few results normally
That could be a problem if the results fed directly into the page rank. But it would seem more logical to use this to cull bad links from the top 10. If people consistenly ignore the first link for a particular search, but instead click on the second or third links, it would be a good indication that the top link isn't very good and should be moved down the list, which could in turn allow a new link to bubble up to the top 10.
