Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
With del.icio.us I get "better" results if I search for high volume, general english keywords then with Google. What do you think? If most of you agree then Google's days are numbered in my opinion. If more and more people are tagging and using this site then less general keywords searches on del.icio.us are becoming also more accurate then Google. It can blow Google right out of the water. Hand edited (more or less) search results are better then Google Algo software.
Cheers from a sunny Holland.
1. Pure human-editorial ranking cannot scale to the size of today's web.
2. Google is already using human input to a dgree, and they've even patented a more scalable method for integrating editorial oversight without needing to rely on it for everything.
3. Google's challenge over the years has a lot to do with webmasters finding ways to game their algo. The same will happen to any market leader. So basic ranking algos like deli.cio.us will need to gain immensely in sophistication if they are ever to challenge the market leader. I don't think that such a game plan is even in the dreaming stage at deli.cio.us.
Opinions of Google's fall from grace have been posted here for years and years -- and yet they have continued to grow. The picture of search is not easy for us to get when we only see a certain piece of the puzzle.
2. They should do that much more instead of giving al kind of sites that offer a good user experience a push. They should put more weight at how many people bookmarked it at sites as delicious and how long people stay on a site in comparison to other sites on that topic.
How many revisits a site got. Human behaviour is much more valuable then if I have a keyword in my title or not.
3. In my opinion Human behaviour will be hot this couple of years if it comes to search.
History shows us that once great companies can fall very deep
Thanks for your feedback
Do they also have products for shrinking men's genitalia? ;)
But seriously, on a couple of non-commercial searches I did on del.icio.us I got good results -- better than Google. But ... the search function was very slow and for some searches (like the name of a local prison) there were no results at all. Del.icio.us just doesn't have enough search results available to be a contender.
Load of rubbish
Even Google is better!
I tried a couple of searches on deli.cio.us and have to say that the results are by far the worst I have seen anywhere. Absolute garbage!
If that was the only search engine we had I think that the web would just shut down through a lack of interest.
Cheers
Sid
