Why Wisdom of Crowds Network Structures Can Be Abused - think NAZI!

The problem of defining truth by adopting the proven maxim of the Wisdom of Crowds as used by Google for data sorting, is that the whole theory falls down in one major way - which is also proven.

It fails to address the individual, in particular individual creativity and innovation at a node (or person).

The collective can never be the origin of truth or overall AUTHORITY because any ideas that a set of people have must have originated from one of the individual members or nodes of that set ............

Here's an interesting view! Derren Brown on Wisdom of Crowds (another wizard of sorts)

Therefore, thank god the wisdom of the crowd lies with the knowledge of the individual.

The other way is the gate to hell.........

Tagging and Keyword Classification from a computers point of view

Here's a very interesting old post that I want you to read about how Internet users decide to tag pages and the consequent new folksonomy or categorisation of computer data, that has grown up around it.

What it demonstrates from a marketing point of view, is that the most used search terms must equal the most tagged page with that term - folksonomy therefore depends upon the wisdom of the crowd! (which of course can be manipulated!)

Heres the post - Tagging and Naming as a new language

More on Google and the Wisdom of the Crowd -In Search of the Truth

If you have been following our posts on Google and the Wisdom of the Crowd, the theory of he who spreads his ideas or links the furthest and loudest becomes the Authority and therefore the truth - hasn't escaped the backroom boys at Google - who in fact the sort of admit (because they do not know but suspect from their assignment briefs) that Googles algo incorporates the wisdom of the crowd......in a recent post that they have cared to rank top for Google Wisdom of the Crowd

Heres the Google post http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/putting-crowd-wisdom-to-work.html

Beat The System

Understanding Set Theory and Google

A small step towards explaining the system that allows you to dominate search engine rankings at will - continually and with no penalty.

The wisdom of crowds is a social theory that hypothesises that if you put enough people of a diverse set into a unionised set (or population as it becomes) the wisdom of crowds will give you an accurate score of truth and quality.

Any marketing campaign that wishes to manipulate the keyword sort function of google we must therefore presuppose has to obey all the rules of definition of the wisdom of crowds, and at the same time not satisfy any of the errors.


Who want's to be a millionaire? (WE ALL DO YEAH!) Ask the Audience! wisdom of the crowd (thats me Tarrant's throttling by the way! now thats another story about being TOO clever)

Think about how this applies to Internet Marketing

we've given you enough clues - the rest you are going to have to pay for!

not just yet though...

So here's the answers to a couple of components of the system that I've been teasing you about for the last few days

These two words describe part of the structure of the system that rips google open like a can opener, by taking advantage of the underlying mathematical structures of the web, that Google cannot change and are not determined by Google, but upon which Google relies to present search results.

the words are

AGGREGATION



SYNDICATION

Viddy well my drogues!

Further reading: Wisdom of the Crowd

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When we release the system in a couple of months time you will learn how to apply the wisdom of crowds to your Internet marketing strategies!

BIG TIP - when thinking about all the implications of the wisdom of crowds, instead of thinking of the crowd set as people - think of it as webpages - or more speciifcally - CONTENT!