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Originally Posted by arius
What if Google used the volume of requests to guage the authority of a site?
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I don't think it is a stretch at all. As massively parallel neural network technologies continue to develop, pattern recognition is sure to become more and more a factor.
I am confident that Google would never rely on a single factor for ranking, but human surfing behavior en masse, is the only thing I can think of that can not be manipulated to the extent that it would make a difference.
Sure, there are already click-bots, but it would be relatively easy (with enough user info over the past hour let’s say) for a neural net to determine whether the click was a human, or a click-bot.
The challenge for GG would be to filter those humans who are poor judges of content. I believe that current stats show that about 70% of searchers click the first listing. The implication is that searchers are lemmings, and not good judges of content. Find a way to get around that, and you’ve got the makings of a great SE.
/*tom*/