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Re:Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone... by bhseo on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @12:31PM (#905684)
A related point: whoever first owns the data from all link aggregators (digg, reddit, mixx, etc) and all URL shorteners (bit.ly, tinyurl, ad nauseum), and weighs those results more heavily is going to have an awesome search engine... albeit better for entertainment than productivity.

Except I'd never find the obscure stuff that Google helps me find every day. I don't think a lot of links to manuals,mailing lists, etc show up on any of the sources you mention.

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Re:Ask HN: do you feel Google search result quality has gone... by thetrumanshow on Wednesday October 28, 2009 @02:29PM (#908440)
No, you'd keep the long-tail search results in tact, but then tend to surface the good content people are actually sharing amongst themselves.

Google already does this, by surfacing youtube videos in many search queries.

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