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October 28th, 2008 
QuadsZilla It seemed to me that Google never intended to buy Digg. They just used the tested Microsoft trick of starting a takeover bid to get their hands on all relevant information via the due diligence process. Then once they had that info, they were just like “nah, that’s OK. We’ve got what we wanted without paying $100 Million. Have a good life!”
We may never know whether or not that research has anything to do what I’m dubbing the new “Google Hot or Not Buttons.”
As you can see from this screenshot, now two buttons appear to either promote or remove a result:
It’s probably too early to start trying to abuse this feature. That’s because it’s unlikely they will use this initial data to rank results.
I say, don’t break it til we’re sure it’s being used and worth breaking.
Then, of course, you’re gonna want to get to exploiting on a major scale. Malware is the most obvious attack vector, but that’s likely to be on the illegal side. Other exploit methods will include creating fake profiles – although that may prove difficult if Google is using email usage as a metrics for verifying user authenticity.
I don’t think it will benefit you to search for every term your sites rank for and promote every result; I have faith that Google isn’t that stupid in 2008. That method will probably not work, may be detrimental to your “user rep”, and will probably be a dead end that will have you wasting days on something that is unlikely to bear any fruit.
My advice is to take some time to think of how to best attack this new feature. No need to jump in, as your experiments may not show results even if those same experiments might work 8 months from now.
You want to abuse the Google Hot or Not Buttons?
Yea, me too. But be patience young Jedi.
A father Bull and his Boy are at the top of a hill. They See a heard of Cows grazing in a pasture down below. The Son says to to the Father Bull “Hey Dad, Let’s run down there and fuck one of those cows!”
“No son. Let’s walk down there and fuck ‘em all” – Tony Soprano
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so i guess it was radom luck that your search results had that new feature or is this all bs?
Actually, the quote was Robert Duval in ‘Colors’ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094894/quotes -> 3rd quote), but very true anyway
I really don’t care enough to doctor a screenshot. So random luck I guess.
I remember the joke from an episode of the sopranos. First season when he’s talking to Jr about spreading the wealth around.
But obviously Colors did it before the Sopranos. There’s no such thing as a new joke . . .
well thanks for the info, hopeful one day i will be lucky and see it too.
Tony Soprano? Try Robert Duval in Colors…maybe he wasnt the first either but at least that was back in the 80’s.
LMAO, nice quote finish there. ^.^
“It’s probably too early to start trying to abuse this feature. That’s because it’s unlikely they will use this initial data to rank results.” If it is, then I’d expect it to be only relevant to users signed in to G. ie, ranking and de-ranking relvant to user only.
Luckily all my websites have amazing content, soooo the votes will be nothing but positive anyhooo! *ahem* I kid, of course.
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Colors, Sopranos, whatever. Somewhere even further down the line, I’m sure it can be traced to Chinese proverbs. Doesn’t everything.
Quads is back with a blackhat info after long time
we were waiting for you buddy. Unluckily i see no buttons for my serps.
[...] Want to Abuse Google’s New Hot or Not Buttons”? [...]
Noticed this earlier today when at work:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html
Amay says in the vid something on the lines of, “What you push up in the SERPs is not valued in to others results”.
HOWEVER;
They do have a link at the bottom called, ‘See all notes for this SearchWiki’ so in theory, can be manipulated… but as for the amount of people who will ever see that result, let alone click on it, who knows?
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[...] You’ve seen in Google SERPs, how, when you’re logged in, there is a place to promote or remove a particular SERP. It’s the X or the arrow up graphic we talked about a few months back. [...]