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A social approach is the solution, but it MUST be designed so that it may not be gamed. The best way to do that is to allow me to vote up or down the search results and to allow me to blacklist/whitelist sites and to OPTIONALLY include my friends black and white lists.
It is this component of including friends, i.e. people I already trust, that ensures that it won't be gamed. If a friend of mine tries to game me, he/she won't be my friend for long. So it's self-policing.
Trouble In the House of Google
Let's look at where stackoverflow.com traffic came from for the year of 2010. When 88.2% of all traffic for your website comes from a single source, criticizing that single source feels … risky. And perhaps a bit churlish, like looking a gift horse in the mouth, or saying something derogato...
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