Monday, October 17, 2011

Problems and Solutions About "Linked Pages"

A Comic "Rate Schedule" on a sign I read;


Answers 1$

Answers That Require Thought 2$

Right Answers 3$

Dumb Looks Are Free



Tim Berners Lee was the founder of the internet in 1989. On Christmas day almost 1990 so the story goes he had the first web page and one computer this was the size of the internet then, high speed, is all there was and will be, or whatever.

Tim is up to his tricks yet more, yes! His hope is for "linked pages" where you type in and get an actual answer not based on just popularity of the site like Google, rather Tim offers the example of some type of enzyme that solves a problem in GE or DNA and you type in Google and you find nothing, but type in the linked pages and you get 8 possible compounds that could be the answer more definitely, all of them solve the problem by offering a solution that is more directly about the problem. This could be of huge worth, e.g. much better for millions seeking health solutions, it might literally save millions of lives and billions of dollars. Linked Pages may be a solution, now if I type in Linked Pages When will they Be Available, you get not much, but with Linked Pages You Would. While High speed is a relief for web woes studies show so many people are so frustrated with their computers this may also be a real improvement for most people who want to use the web more efficiently, me!



THE PROBLEM;

As with the "rate schedule" we can find answers, but how do we know if the answers are true? This could cause problems, for example each year thousands of doctors, lawyers, and pizza hut fans are slandered, don't know why, and their business is harmed. Like you know, that site for the defence of these persons, reputation.com, a site devoted just to holding on to their business against these people who slander them on the web, ect.

If there is this possibility with linked that literally anyone could just go online and type in any lie they like, and then anyone else asks about them like a background check by potential employer, and they find all the answers, and they are all lies.


SOLUTIONS

Though this is bad and though I believe linked pages are better than not, I think there may be ways to find the truth;

One would be to seperate on the search engine the linked pages from the popularity pages. This has the problem that 90% of the books published when there were actual volumes were nonfiction, that is problem solving, and so most people would seem to pass the popularity pages and go right to the linked pages, thus another strategy might be best...

In the ancient art of rhetoric there is a discussion and when often inevitably if not moreso there is a dispute sometimes, there are two ways to resolve it, not Tim Berners Lee typing in 200 million pages typing out is of more worth! The two ways are to either ask an expert or for the person making the claim in dispute to improve it and resubmit for consideration, then if it's not accepted, to either ask another expert or improve some more, resubmit, ect.

For web pages to know the truth, using the popularity of sites may be one way to insure that most people have already agreed that the page is improved for consideration, and the other way is to ask an expert, i.e. authority sites like wikipedia for science, and sites like WEB Md. for medical stuff. This would be based on a more complex ranking system, the best of both linked pages and popularity.

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