Nice move from the google!
Nov 29
That’s it! Googled started testing digg style voting for their search engine result.
For those who don’t know what digg style voting is:
News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.
So basically, users submit news or links, people vote on it, then the stories with the most vote get featured on the homepage. This way the “most interesting” stories are the one your are the most likely to see.
Now how good is it for google, well since right it’ll be based by user for now (it’ll only take your vote into consideration) it should improve your search results greatly. Lets say a site as more pertinent result for you and you vote it on several occasion, this site is them much more likely to come up on top on any of your searches.
Now, I guess the way we develop site will have to evolve a bit, because now not only the content will be of great importance, but the whole experience will be since you want users to rank you higher in google.
Interesting subject to follow!