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Originally Posted by Anonymous
"From a common sense standpoint... If the Search Engines, Google or whomever, are planning to rank pages according to popularity, how is a new site site ever going to become popular, to attain rank?" If it's a new site, obviously it has no traffic and thus its not popular. Without popularity, it won't be ranked in a position that it might see more traffic and gain in popularity. It will waste away, remaining endlessly at the bottom of the pile, because it's not popular upon its inception.
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My opinion about this is that since most of the people who make decisions for the major search engines are not dumb, they have considered this.
A search engine that has nothing but major corporations, or just paid inclusion results does not make for a good results. They know this and won't let it happen, some might try it until they see that users are starting to migrate away from them.
Again, these people are not dumb. I think that hit popularity will only be one of the many things that the majors will use to place a site in the results. I imagine hit popularity having about as much impact as PageRank had during its pre-exploit days; just one piece of the puzzle. This will give quality, established sites an advantage over start-ups, but not one that can't be challenged.
This piece of the puzzle will only last as long as it takes for its exploits to become as rampant as PageRank's.
Again, this is PURE opinion, like was asked, perhaps Garret can find more information.
Incidently, I'm curious what the mood and tone is like there. After-hour parties? Dancing girls?