Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Google Sidewiki Will Fail

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:58:17 +0000

I appreciate the opinion. You do bring up one point that upon further research will cause me to write an follow up post or an editors note. That is the FIFO entry. Still, I will write this as flawed as Google is using a “proprietary algorithm” to determine comment importance. This has proven to be flawed in the past and is often gamed. A few examples in normal search are 1) Googling the word MATT produces Matt Mullenweg’s site. I love Matt and WordPress but is that really the most relevant search result? 2) Content on the RipOff Report that has been proven fictitious by matter of public record or sworn testimonies still outranks legit content.

Chrome? Please. . .

Layman favoritism? If you are a believer in elitist politics, you would argue that the first amendment is worthless without the capital to produce reach. I will concur that Google has enabled the common person and given them a voice. One of the things I love about Wikipedia is the fact that stories can be told that are known by very few but really round things out. Though sometimes abuse attempts are made, it is corrected by the public and really opens up new levels of quality through collaboration. I think that as the Internet evolves, credibility and collaboration will be key. I’m not sold that “Google’s algorithms” foster that.

Since you hated this one, you are really going to love the post I have in the works about how Bing has a leapfrog opportunity that is partially created by Twitter!

As far as having no idea of what I’m talking about. I’ll take that opinion as this is a purely speculative post. But I also respectfully challenge your ideas.

Let’s see how this one plays out.

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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:04:48 +0000

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By: O'Reily

O'Reily — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:59:58 +0000

This is the shittiest article I’ve seen yet on sidewiki. This is just a thinly veiled feature request (or “suggestions”) list. Of course you get page views with the headline, but zero substance and really – really crappy reasons.

This article should be titled “Why I think Sidewiki in its current form will not succeed.”
4 of your arguments destroyed in 30 words or less:

1. Authors reputations *are* ranked
2. Add Randomization feature to equally weighted posts
3. Chrome
4. Google has always favored the lay user base
5. I’m not sure you have any idea what you’re talking about.