{"id":319,"date":"2015-03-03T04:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-03-03T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:38:30","slug":"googles-new-ranking-scheme-death-by-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2015\/03\/03\/googles-new-ranking-scheme-death-by-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Googles New Ranking Scheme &#8211; Death by Consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #003366; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Google has altered their scheme to rank pages no longer based upon popularity, as determined by the number and quality of incoming links, but rather by what they are considering &#8220;<strong>truth<\/strong>&#8220;, as based upon the number of non-comforming &#8220;<strong>facts<\/strong>&#8221; upon a page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That is to say if your page agrees with the majority of tripe on the Internet as a whole, it is ranked high, if it disagrees, it is ranked low.\u00a0 So mass-media, like, &#8220;Unfair and Unbalanced Fox News&#8221;, can flood the net with &#8220;<strong>facts<\/strong>&#8220;, and anyone who disagrees with them, no matter how valid and well supported their argument may be, simply won&#8217;t get heard because their page contains ideas that are counter to those of the majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366; font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do no evil?\u00a0 I think not!\u00a0 This is about as Orwellian as a twist as Google could have possibly given the Internet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Google has altered their scheme to rank pages no longer based upon popularity, as determined by the number and quality of incoming links, but rather by what they are considering &#8220;truth&#8220;, as based upon the number of non-comforming &#8220;facts&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2015\/03\/03\/googles-new-ranking-scheme-death-by-consensus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}