How so? How will knowing what my friends and contacts "like" help Google not res...

cryptoz · on June 28, 2011

> How will knowing what my friends and contacts "like" help Google not respond to my searches with content farm-ed crap?

If your friends "like" a Stack Exchange post but not Experts Exchange, isn't it obvious how this would help them filter out the bad ones?

paganel · on June 28, 2011

98% of my FB friends don't know about Stack Exchange or Experts Exchange. The other 2% are my IT-department co-workers.

true_religion · on June 28, 2011

Do 98% of your facebook friends search on subjects that would be found at Stack Exchange or Experts Exchange?

If the answer is no, then any algorithm that takes into account collective searches and 'likes' will ignore them because they wouldn't fit within the cluster of people relevant to that search term.