I’ve always believed in a variation of Linus’s Law: Given enough eyeballs, all information bugs are shallow.
Clarence Fisher commented on something appalling that’s going on, in his post here. You can read the original comment by Tom Hoffman here.
So I’m going to do my bit as well. Here goes:
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that “Google-bombing for a good cause” is oxymoronic. This is probably because I subscribe to the principle that you do not fight fire with fire. All that does is burn up more stuff. Fortunately, it appears that Google is thinking along the same lines:
http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-6153786.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news
I’m just not sure they are going to be able to solve a fundamental problem of judgment with better algorithms:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-Mff23hgidqmHGqbcv.lfskakEtS6qLVHUEMFUG4-?cq=1&p=159