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by julioademar 4333 days ago
> I don't see how is this any different from any other signal that Google uses to prioritize sites. «Oh, they're screwing up before, too? Then I guess it's alright»

> How does it prevent decentralization? Because only a handful of companies can issue certificates.
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icebraining 4333 days ago
«Oh, they're screwing up before, too? Then I guess it's alright»

How is it screwing up? How are they supposed to run a search engine without prioritizing? "Here's 30000 results, we've randomly sorted them for you"?

Because only a handful of companies can issue certificates.

Fair enough.

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julioademar 4333 days ago
Apologies, I haven't made myself clear with that idiotic of a snarky remark :) What I meant is that their actions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to their actions today.

The principles behind PageRank are based on unbiased reputation, and provide for a good ranking system (spammers aside). Whatever's thrown on top needs to be carefully considered not to enforce biases towards any group in particular.

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jack-r-abbit 4333 days ago
> How are they supposed to run a search engine without prioritizing?

Maybe quality of content? If the best info gets buried because they can't afford a cert or don't have a need for one then this hurts the Internet.

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