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Reputonics - Today's GoogleWhacks

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June 24, 2005
reputonics - It's only one word, but it only has one result on Google today. I found it in a presentation I was looking at, and was curious where it came from.

• Did you mean: reptronics
• [PDF] The Access Principle:
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  • This reputational economy – “reputonics” in Weber’s. apparent coinage or “ego-nomy” in mine (2004, 143; in press) – became manifest in the 16 ...
  • epresence.tv/mediaContent/archives/2005_mar31/talk.pdf - Similar pages
• Did you mean to search for: reptronics

Reputonics seems to refer to metrics that measure reputation. Here are some related items.

Applications and news related to reputation scoring:

• Advogato's Trust Metric - http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html
  • resistance to catastrophic failure in the face of a sufficiently massive attack. Instead, the number of bad nodes accepted scales linearly, and with a fairly small constant, with the number of certificates from valid accounts to bogus ones.

• Google News Reputation Scoring -
  • http://www.ojr.org/ojr/blog/Business/502/ - Quality, not quantity, will dictate new Google news
    • http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624975.900 - Google searches for quality not quantity
      • GOOGLE has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms.
    • The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.
      • Google plans to build a database that will compare the track record and credibility of all news sources around the world, and adjust the ranking of any search results accordingly. Driven by:
        • Number of stories
        • Story length
        • Stories with bylines
        • Bureaus cited
        • Count of staff employed
        • Website traffic

• http://cephas.net/blog/p2p/

• Spam fighting - "almost any type of spam blocking could be considered a variant of reputation scoring."

Challenges for automated reputation scoring:

• Natural language processing
• Malacious interference
• Changes of the metrics will affect trend analysis

Here are some samples to be scored by reputonics:

• Angry User: ViewSonic?Create V37 Pocket PC
  • There are data syncing issues with this model and other strange behaviors. Unfortunately Viewsonic is no longer offering an upgrade to Pocket PC 2003 which should fix some of these issues. Here is the response from their technical support: "The PPC 2003 upgrade CD for the Pocket PC V37 is no longer in production.". I personally would not purchase anything that can't be upgraded! Buyer beware! The screen resolution is not that great either.
  • 7/2/2004 8:26:23 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) Comments [0] Computers
  • From http://blog.davidmccarter.net/default,date,2005-04-28.aspx

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