[Search-l] NPOV for Search?

[Matthew Silvey]

You will be forcing every user into the perspective of whatever set of,
transparent I hope, rules govern rank in results.  For instance not everyone
might agree that a candidate running for President of the USA should have
the link to their self-promotional site rank above the site related to a
currently held public office.  I assume the driving point in all of this
should be that we make the rules as visible and accessible as possible
first.

On 1/8/08, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > Relevance and neutrality are not opposed goals at all. The problem
> > with the Google results in this case is that they fail to cover the
> > wide range of what the user might be looking for. That is to say,
> > their lack of neutrality gives rise to a lack of relevance.
>
> Wait, wait, are you suggesting that the users should be forced into
> neutrality when making a search? I don't know how practical it is to
> want every user of a search engine to change just for the interface. :)
>
> - Bryan
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