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Re:A search engine built by the crowd by josephpmay on Thursday July 11, 2013 @11:02AM (#6026426)
I think this is a great idea! However, I am worried about privacy. I also feel like this algorithm may inflate the importance of certain types of content over others. For example, just because I spend more time on a news or social media website does not mean that it has higher quality content, it just means that the content takes longer to consume. Within content categories, however, I think this could do a good job of weeding out the quality content from the spam.
Re:A search engine built by the crowd by geraldbaeck on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:47PM (#6027230)
Thanks, that is a very interesting input. We should think about running additional semantic analysis and relate them to the time spent on sites. We are very sure that our algorithm needs a lot of fine tuning and this could be a very important part of it.

-Gerald Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.