Comments on: Hakia Pushes Credibility Filtering – Still Flawed http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/07/hakia-pushes-credibility-filtering-still-flawed/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:35:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mihaela Lica http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/07/hakia-pushes-credibility-filtering-still-flawed/comment-page-1/#comment-805751 Mihaela Lica Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:13:38 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3062#comment-805751 What an excellent observation, Josh. I see hakia struggling since a long time and I am amazed to see that, despite some valid articles like yours, they still approach search from a... let's not call it wrong but non-lucrative perspective. Somehow they manage to come up with strategies that fail to impress the industry. They bring nothing new to the search stage. Involving human filtering for "credibility" is not the first attempt of the kind. Almost all search engines employ some form of human filtering - the only difference is that not all come clean about their algorithms and indexing/filtering techniques. The so called credible search will actually deliver only subjective results... What an excellent observation, Josh. I see hakia struggling since a long time and I am amazed to see that, despite some valid articles like yours, they still approach search from a… let’s not call it wrong but non-lucrative perspective. Somehow they manage to come up with strategies that fail to impress the industry. They bring nothing new to the search stage. Involving human filtering for “credibility” is not the first attempt of the kind. Almost all search engines employ some form of human filtering – the only difference is that not all come clean about their algorithms and indexing/filtering techniques. The so called credible search will actually deliver only subjective results…

]]> By: Josh Catone http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/07/hakia-pushes-credibility-filtering-still-flawed/comment-page-1/#comment-805052 Josh Catone Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:44:45 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3062#comment-805052 @mile-jerkovic Perhaps, but so far it seems like all of their "credible" results come from .org and .gov and .edu domains, and don't include credible, but commercial, science or health sites (sci and health being the two topics they cover right now). @mile-jerkovic Perhaps, but so far it seems like all of their “credible” results come from .org and .gov and .edu domains, and don’t include credible, but commercial, science or health sites (sci and health being the two topics they cover right now).

]]> By: mile-jerkovic http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/07/hakia-pushes-credibility-filtering-still-flawed/comment-page-1/#comment-804804 mile-jerkovic Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:46:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3062#comment-804804 Josh, I think that "no commercial intent or bias" of content refers to product placement inside articles or cases where articles are written as commercials. I don't see why they wouldn't include commercial news sites, it just seems they wanted to exclude product plugging in news articles. Josh, I think that “no commercial intent or bias” of content refers to product placement inside articles or cases where articles are written as commercials.

I don’t see why they wouldn’t include commercial news sites, it just seems they wanted to exclude product plugging in news articles.

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