> Those in the experiment could still see and use the public dislike button, but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count.
I don't understand this part. So, hiding the dislike count means less people will dislike.
Then what's the point of disliking a video? It provides much less feedback to a creator than just commenting, it's more often used as a signal to other viewers. If it's hidden, there's really no point of including it at all. In fact, why not remove likes too? And while we're at it, let's remove the view count too.
This is a really strange change, and I'm not sure that I'm happy about it.
Does any one know what's up with all the different domains for archive.is?
The blog is at blog.archive.today, it calls itself the "archive.is blog", but when I visit archive.is or archive.today, I'm brought to archive.vn. When I click the "archive.today" logo in the header, I'm taken to archive.ph
I feel like this directory would be cooler if it also was designed like a vintage website.. it seems like it's currently just a WordPress blog with a generic theme. :(
I am much happier with this system, but I don't really see how this would help Google.. Early web advertising used basic page topic based targeting, but clearly more targeted ads make more money, so what monetary benefit does this provide Google?