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At 10:21 AM -0500 10/10/02, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Thanks for making the point. Worse is worse, >but better needs requirements to insure it is better. >Better than what is an operative question. >Do we want Google to "evolve" into a business >registry where the opinions of the competitors >determine the ranking instead of the registered >assertions of the vendor so registered? > I give much more weight to what a business registry where the opinions of the *customers* determine the ranking of a vendor than one that depends on the registered assertions of the vendor so registered. That, in effect, is what Google does today for the Web. The more happy customers a site has, the higher it ranks. Google's algorithm for determining customer happiness is heavily based on linking, not perfect, but the best we've got so far. I trust this much more than search engines that sell placement, contract or no. No, this isn't exactly what UDDI does, but I still think there's a lesson to be learned here about the emergent behavior of gathering many small opinions vs. trying to rely on a few centralized systems, experts, and contracts. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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