Comments on: Should Opinion Be a Ranking Factor?

By: I am an idiot! I cannot read

I am an idiot! I cannot read — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:29:26 +0000

i can say that opinion is a better factor for ranking. I agree with you Tim

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:14:15 +0000

that doesn’t hold up, we know the effect of gravity not only here and on the moon, but in any circumstances, given we have known constants (lets call them um facts) about the environment and we have ways to measure those facts.

We need to give the facts values we can share does not diminish them or make them any less concrete simply we need to give them a name and a value to discuss them.

The person falling off the cliff given enough facts and data we can give the exact force he will hit the ground.

By: Justin Parks

Justin Parks — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:06:25 +0000

Gravity is only a proven opinion its true. What`s true here wont make it fact in other places though, like on the moon, so while it exists in some form that dosent mean it is a constant “fact” just cause we experience it at this moment in this location.

If the Guy wearing the feathers actually jumps then what happens next is that he is going to die. Unless there are other factors involved that I’m not aware of to prevent this fact. Like a parachute, or a bouncy castle or a tea cup of luke warm water. Hell, maybe he will float upwards anyway cause he simply believes in it.

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:42:14 +0000

I simply requote…

I resist the urge to ask Storm
Whether knowledge is so loose-weave
Of a morning
When deciding whether to leave
Her apartment by the front door
Or a window on the second floor.

You can’t exact argue with gravity, well you can briefly until you hit the ground, likewise there are always known constants, speed of light in a vacuum. You could make the case that a fact is a proved opinion but should I trust the opinion of a guy wearing feathers on his arms who declares gravity is no more and he can fly as he leaps of said cliff?

By: Justin Parks

Justin Parks — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:16:59 +0000

Its interesting that your pro-actively addressing the point Tim and I think you have your work cut out for you in disseminating the difference between fact and opinion when (Im my opinion ;P) the two are one and the same.

That means I’m on the side of Opinion outranking Fact I guess.

In my (somewhat insane and brightly coloured) little world there are no such things as facts. Nothing has such complete permanence in either truth or reality that it can be counted on to remain consistent for eternity and never change.

All Facts evolve and as such that means that no facts in actuality exist. They are simply the accepted opinion of that time or considered to be FACT because a majority may hold them as the basis for some other warped or misguided belief.

Therefore, to stick to the point, opinion is as much fact as accepted facts are and only with a combination of them all can we decide which opinion is most acceptable or logical as a fact and to display this in search results and mark them up as one or the other is a misrepresentation as this in itself is the “opinion” of the search engines algorithm in taking the factors and results into account!