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Use sentiment analysis to discover the intent of a link, and whether the destination should get more link juice. Positive sentiment: positive link juice. Negative sentiment: zero link juice.

Alternatively, for negative reviews, etc., use rel="nofollow".

To claim that algorithmic search is dead completely ignores the volume that Google is doing, or the fact that they are making $billions in algorithmic search and Ad placement. How much do curated places make?

Also, not to rain on anyone's parade or anything (just kidding, I'm going to rain it down) it would take decades of 10k people churning through pages to get even 1% of the new content that Google discovers daily.

You all saw the 24 hours of unique video uploaded to YouTube every minute of every day figure from a year or two ago, right? Imagine that, only text, and produced by 10x-1000x as many people at 10-1000x the volume posting to forums, newsgroups, social networking sites, blogs, etc., every minute of every day. Because of this, you can't just review a site, you have to review the content on each page of the site. That's going to kill any curated engine in the long term.




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