Comments on: Review of Aftervote (formerly younanimously) http://fadtastic.net/2007/04/12/review-of-aftervote-formerly-younanimously/ thoughts on | comments about | examples of } web design trends. Fri, 16 May 2008 19:09:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Ted Goas http://fadtastic.net/2007/04/12/review-of-aftervote-formerly-younanimously/#comment-39245 Ted Goas Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:23:42 +0000 http://fadtastic.net/2007/04/12/review-of-aftervote-formerly-younanimously/#comment-39245 I'm confused. Is this thing like a cross between Digg and Google? So I search on Aftervote and rank the results, which affects each website's search ranking in my futrure aftervote uses? I’m confused. Is this thing like a cross between Digg and Google? So I search on Aftervote and rank the results, which affects each website’s search ranking in my futrure aftervote uses?

]]> By: Andrew Faulkner http://fadtastic.net/2007/04/12/review-of-aftervote-formerly-younanimously/#comment-39286 Andrew Faulkner Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:02:39 +0000 http://fadtastic.net/2007/04/12/review-of-aftervote-formerly-younanimously/#comment-39286 Ted, It pulls in results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. From their FAQs: <blockquote>We briefly cover this in the 'about' page - But to simplify, we take the results from the 3 major search engines, (Google, Yahoo, MSN) Taking into account their current rankings. We then weight them against our own database to see what our users have said about where positions should be, and apply that weight to the results. Sometimes users have their own custom algorithm, and in that case you choose how to rank the results, not us.</blockquote> I hope that clears it up. Ted,

It pulls in results from Google, Yahoo and MSN. From their FAQs:

We briefly cover this in the ‘about’ page - But to simplify, we take the results from the 3 major search engines, (Google, Yahoo, MSN) Taking into account their current rankings. We then weight them against our own database to see what our users have said about where positions should be, and apply that weight to the results. Sometimes users have their own custom algorithm, and in that case you choose how to rank the results, not us.

I hope that clears it up.

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