Trust is not likely to be a word used by many users when it comes to search results and ranking. The algorithms used in secret by search engines do little to build trust. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Trust and Semantic Search.”
Trust is achieved through ascertaining the reliability of data sources and using formal logic when deriving new information. Computers leverage or mimic this factor from human behavior in order to derive algorithms that provide relevant search results to users. In other words, humans must trust that the “cloning” of their behavior is accurate.
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Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
