[Search-l] Privacy and sharing browsing data (Seth Ford)

[John McCormac]

MJE Sales, LLC wrote:
> If you are looking at hindering spam - there has to be some sort of AI
> component or a human element.  Why not create a stumbleupon type thing
> where sites are flagged as spam or not spam.  to reduce the load on
> all the servers it could send 10, 25, or 50 urls at a time.  But then
> again I guess each persons definition of spam is a little different.
> We run several large domains with 100,000's of pages, so our approach
> is a tad different.

Would this solution scale well? The human element has almost always been 
the weak link in fighting search engine spam. The index quality part of 
running a search engine is always the toughest part of the task. Even 
allocating 50 or so urls at a time would require, at a rough guess, 
hundreds of thousands of active users.

It would effectively require some form of Wikia toolbar where usage and 
voting data would be fed back to the central site. This adds yet another 
layer of complexity on an as yet non-existent layercake search project. 
And then there is the reluctance of users to install yet another piece 
of cruft into their browser after the Google toolbar, the Microsoft 
toolbar, the Yahoo toolbar etc.

Regards...jmcc
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