Supposedly one can also install Greasemonkey and add a new plugin that blocks these things. I'm doing that now. I'm glad there is internal pressure to make it go away.
I guess I'm not saying they shouldn't experiment, just that I hated that particular venture. I am pleased that they quickly figured out almost no one appreciated it.
As I was noticing them, I was wondering what prevented me, or anybody from deciding to "remove" a relevant but disliked link. Do they really want to create the next wikipedia-editing-type nightmare?
The thing is, this is a completely individualized view, if I understand it correctly. You can suggest links to other people, but if you remove or reorder a link you're only doing it for yourself.
I just think the whole concept is kind of pointless. I could see distributing this as a sort of bookmarking widget, but the whole fucking point of page ranking is to establish preference for more relevant links based on other people's linking behavior. Beyond that, we have this newfangled concept of storing a link for later reference... what's it called... "bookmarks"?
The one area that I thinksomething like this might be useful is in research, where you're trying to collect a group of relevant links all in one place. So I could see being able to pull together say the 5 or 10 most interesting or useful links (without having to save each one individually) and then tagging them with a personal meta bookmark that you could share or access from anywhere.
But even then, it should be an optional thing. ...
It is also making it slightly harder to red the relevant snippet of info associated with a link using a screenreader. Google, your record on accessibility is pretty sketchy, why do you want to break the one thing you got right?
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If you really hate them that hard, you can log out of gmail, and they go away. Lame solution, I know.
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As I was noticing them, I was wondering what prevented me, or anybody from deciding to "remove" a relevant but disliked link.
Do they really want to create the next wikipedia-editing-type nightmare?
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I just think the whole concept is kind of pointless. I could see distributing this as a sort of bookmarking widget, but the whole fucking point of page ranking is to establish preference for more relevant links based on other people's linking behavior. Beyond that, we have this newfangled concept of storing a link for later reference... what's it called... "bookmarks"?
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So I could see being able to pull together say the 5 or 10 most interesting or useful links (without having to save each one individually) and then tagging them with a personal meta bookmark that you could share or access from anywhere.
But even then, it should be an optional thing.
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Google, your record on accessibility is pretty sketchy, why do you want to break the one thing you got right?
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Enroll in the "alternate views for search results" experiment and SearchWiki will go away.
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