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> But Google searches only work because of these link collections.  Remember
> that Google ranking is based to a major part on the links pointing to a
site
> and the links a site makes to other sites.  So you remove the link
> collections, you change Google ranking!

True enough, but I don't dispute the necessity of linking, which is
fundamental to the Web (and to Google).
What I say is that organised links collections have become unmanageable both
by the people who maintain them (unless they  have a paid workforce to do
it) and by the people who use them (because the links are too numerous and
many are dead). In my own rather narrow field of work, where we're lagging a
few years behind computer graphics in terms of internet use, I collected and
indexed around 1000 links 2 years ago, which seemed gigantic; today I just
can't keep up as any google search retrieves dozens of interesting links
that I just don't have the time to index properly. In fact, googling them up
later is likely to be faster than searching my own database.
Allowing users to submit links and archive those links doesn't defeat
linking. Actually, many links are now posted in free form in
personal/community blogs and web forums and find their way in Google. It
just means that the burden of classification and ranking, which is the real
bottleneck here, is shifted to the search engines. Of course, user-submitted
links have other issues, like moderation, spamming, double posts etc.

G.


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