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jdludlow
on May 2, 2012
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Google is making a huge and annoying mistake
It's done partially because "everyone else is doing it," but there is also the "wisdom of crowds" value. The number of likes or dislikes is a quick metric that can be used for sorting, searching, populating a home page, or building recommendations.
Tyrannosaurs
on May 2, 2012
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It's also a metric that because it's tied to accounts is relatively hard to game, at least in a major way.
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