Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as “homes for sale in San Francisco,” a “one box” result used to show pull-down menus for “location” and “listing type.” Activating these boxes would then lead into a specialized “Google Base” screen that allowed [...]

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Posted by Nick Gerner
I’ve been reading some of the papers from AIRWeb ‘08, the recent web spam conference, and I came across one called, "A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media."  What was really interesting to me is that the authors quantify the effects of vote spam in "thumbing" systems [...]

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You know what you’re doing, right? We are all rational beings. We are all blessed with huge neocortexes and use them on a regular basis. This is especially so when we do something as thoughtful as use a search engine. Our rational loop is kicked into high gear. Right?
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