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Old 08-22-2006, 05:30 PM
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Default Re: Social Search

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Originally Posted by kensmith View Post
why would a search engine put value on it?

Google, Yahoo!, MSN, & ASK believe that links found in the social communities to be more trustworthy. Why? I don’t know if it’s really important to know why… Actually, I do understand the why. The theory goes something like this. If you have a link from the wikipedia it’s generally assumed to be a trustworthy vote for your site. If it wasn’t, the “community" would have edited it out. Social Search appears to be (at least for now) the search engines answer to finding a way to add human intervention to the algorithm.

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