Unfortunately, that dataset would only stay amazing until they tried to use it to power a search engine.
History has shown that any time user-generated content is shown to users, spammers will quickly set themselves up as the ones generating 99% of the content.
It's only worth spammers time if their search is a successful product that spammers want to be a part of. Even still, with 2m users, I'd imagine that bots wouldn't have a substantial effect on the data, not at least without easily beind detected.
Search is beside the point, though. They said they tried it and it was amazing but only for some things. It's true, just search delicious to get an idea of the type of search possible. It's very good for most things, but worthless for finding any content that people wouldn't tag, like 98% of the content of any URL.
My hypothesis was that their data could be used for other reasons.
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Unfortunately, that dataset would only stay amazing until they tried to use it to power a search engine.
History has shown that any time user-generated content is shown to users, spammers will quickly set themselves up as the ones generating 99% of the content.
It's only worth spammers time if their search is a successful product that spammers want to be a part of. Even still, with 2m users, I'd imagine that bots wouldn't have a substantial effect on the data, not at least without easily beind detected.
Search is beside the point, though. They said they tried it and it was amazing but only for some things. It's true, just search delicious to get an idea of the type of search possible. It's very good for most things, but worthless for finding any content that people wouldn't tag, like 98% of the content of any URL.
My hypothesis was that their data could be used for other reasons.