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8 months ago
in ChaCha Still Hasn’t Paid Their Guides. Terrible on tinycomb
I'm just sayin as a Guide that I get paid, and these folks with problems do get their issues fixed. I see the forum posts where ChaCha is trying to help the ones with issues. Most of us never have an issue at all.
8 months ago
in ChaCha Still Hasn’t Paid Their Guides. Terrible on tinycomb
Try doing a little research before you jump to wildly inaccurate assertions and voice ludicrous opinions like this.
Do you have a clue how much ChaCha pays out daily to tens of thousands of guides across the country?
Do you know if any of those people with issues in September are happy?
Do you know that the percentage of Guides that have trouble getting paid from ChaCha is under 1% and that ALL of those have issues like duplicate emails and Social Security numbers in our system?
Do you know that we have tried to communicate with each and everyone one of the people affected with several emails and several calls to action online and that without their own intervention we cant resolve their issues?
Do you have a clue how much ChaCha pays out daily to tens of thousands of guides across the country?
Do you know if any of those people with issues in September are happy?
Do you know that the percentage of Guides that have trouble getting paid from ChaCha is under 1% and that ALL of those have issues like duplicate emails and Social Security numbers in our system?
Do you know that we have tried to communicate with each and everyone one of the people affected with several emails and several calls to action online and that without their own intervention we cant resolve their issues?
1 year ago
in Emperor Google Has No Clothes | BPWrap on BPWrap
Is this the BCS formula debate in college football? Sure sounds like it, but the stakes are higher than being left out of the national championship game. What's better? This formula, that formula, these people voting, those people voting.
Google has changed the world. To do that, they created a PR valuation system that stable, but about as fair as the feudal system of government. Now, they would like to make the formula something more democratic, because the peasants and minor land owners are revolting.
But creating algorithmic PR valuations based on 'content', backlinks, tags, and even 'performance', has major flaws that can manipulated by the clever and the well funded.
Human intervention is a great idea, but it's not scalable and its definitely not free of bias or graft potential. How much money would auto insurers for instance be willing to pay to have their link higher on the page in a Mahalo-world?
For the foreseeable future, I think that the beatings will continue, Google will continue to print money.
Google has changed the world. To do that, they created a PR valuation system that stable, but about as fair as the feudal system of government. Now, they would like to make the formula something more democratic, because the peasants and minor land owners are revolting.
But creating algorithmic PR valuations based on 'content', backlinks, tags, and even 'performance', has major flaws that can manipulated by the clever and the well funded.
Human intervention is a great idea, but it's not scalable and its definitely not free of bias or graft potential. How much money would auto insurers for instance be willing to pay to have their link higher on the page in a Mahalo-world?
For the foreseeable future, I think that the beatings will continue, Google will continue to print money.
2 years ago
in Jason Calacanis And The No Free Lunch Theorem on BPWrap
I won't take umbrage with the views of Michael Grey and others, I happen to agree with a lot of what they have espoused.
But it should be pointed out that, in the black and white hypothesis they appear to be testing, they are stakeholders with a lot to lose should humans win the battle over algorithms :)
How would a SEO consultant optimize placement controlled by a set of human guides? Hire lobbyists?
And does that make Mahalo/ChaCha the Neo to Googles Mr. Smith?
But it should be pointed out that, in the black and white hypothesis they appear to be testing, they are stakeholders with a lot to lose should humans win the battle over algorithms :)
How would a SEO consultant optimize placement controlled by a set of human guides? Hire lobbyists?
And does that make Mahalo/ChaCha the Neo to Googles Mr. Smith?
2 years ago
in Tagging - Humans versus Robots | BPWrap on BPWrap
I see Tagging as somewhat similar to the old Metatag model of user-implemented categorization of WebPages.
The initial value of Metatags was high, because the SERPs had not matured to a point that they could analyze keywords, density, deception and user-dumbness effectively. Now that the SERPs can index and assign value without ambiguous human input, Metatags are mostly useless.
Tagging will have a similar trajectory to it. In part because Tagging is just Metatags extended past WebPages and into files and data objects of many types. Eventually the SERPs will be able to do most of it for us.
But the lessening of value over time will be much longer term for Tagging, because it has at least three mitigating differences:
1) Tagging has an intrinsic value to users: an easy way to categorize free-form digital information. Wow, is this powerful. Having a database and info architecture background, I am amazed how easily Tagging lets me assign relationships and then search for items – all without putting everything into a strict file system or naming convention. And importantly, the solution is accessible to the non-tech masses that.
2) Tagging has personal value – even when the SERPs lose interest, it still helps me organize my personal information in ways that are effective for me.
3) Machine Tagging of non-textual information isn’t here yet. When the SERPs can grab my image/video/audio files, scan them for objects and concepts, and then machine-tag this information, they will be part of the way there.
As it is, I think Tagging will be here for a while, because of its value in enhancing search (both direct and tangential) and its accessibility to users.
-Jeff
The initial value of Metatags was high, because the SERPs had not matured to a point that they could analyze keywords, density, deception and user-dumbness effectively. Now that the SERPs can index and assign value without ambiguous human input, Metatags are mostly useless.
Tagging will have a similar trajectory to it. In part because Tagging is just Metatags extended past WebPages and into files and data objects of many types. Eventually the SERPs will be able to do most of it for us.
But the lessening of value over time will be much longer term for Tagging, because it has at least three mitigating differences:
1) Tagging has an intrinsic value to users: an easy way to categorize free-form digital information. Wow, is this powerful. Having a database and info architecture background, I am amazed how easily Tagging lets me assign relationships and then search for items – all without putting everything into a strict file system or naming convention. And importantly, the solution is accessible to the non-tech masses that.
2) Tagging has personal value – even when the SERPs lose interest, it still helps me organize my personal information in ways that are effective for me.
3) Machine Tagging of non-textual information isn’t here yet. When the SERPs can grab my image/video/audio files, scan them for objects and concepts, and then machine-tag this information, they will be part of the way there.
As it is, I think Tagging will be here for a while, because of its value in enhancing search (both direct and tangential) and its accessibility to users.
-Jeff
