Zniff
Submitted by stan on Sun, 2005-05-15 23:16.
A new search engine, Zniff, takes a step in the right direction by using publicly available social bookmarks as indicators of worth. However, this approach is doomed to fail if it enjoys any success: If it becomes popular, it is all to easy for tricksters to create false bookmarks for the sole purpose of inflating the ranks of chosen pages. It's the same lesson that Google is learning now with googlebombing. You can never trust random pages on the internet. Not even social bookmark pages.