[afripv6-discuss] Tweak the Search Engine rankings to push IPv6

[Mukom Akong TAMON]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:13 PM, hisham ahmed. ibrahim <ahisham at mcit.gov.eg
> wrote:

> Dear Mukom,
> Seems like a simple enough idea that might just work, or at least give a
> good push in the right direction; high search rankings should serve as a
> good incentive for content providers that mainly aim to achieving that goal.
> However, I am not sure if there are any legal or legislation concerns to
> doing so, I guess it is worth looking into with the major search engine
> sites.
>

In addition to this, while high search rankings are a good incentive to
content providers, the question them becomes: what i in it for the search
providers like Google, Bing, Yahoo?  Like Carlos already mentioned, search
rankings are their bread and butter. Unless there is a  benefit to them to
tweak it as suggested, I don't think most of them will have the courage to
try. Unless of course some new search engine comes out of nowhere to
re-define the game?



> Regards
> Hisham Ahmed
>
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> Subject: [afripv6-discuss] Tweak the Search Engine rankings to push IPv6
>
> Hello all
>
> Here is an interesting idea ...
>
> _________________________
>
> We all know that IPv6 deployment is a chicken-and-egg problem: Service
> Providers are slow to adopt IPv6 (there are some notable exceptions,
> including Comcast) because they can’t charge for it and the content
> providers don’t care because there are no IPv6 customers.
>
> My good friend Jan Žorž got a great idea during the Google IPv6
> Implementers Conference and finally managed to write it down: all we need is
> a slight search engine preference for sites reachable over IPv4 and IPv6. A
> small well-publicized tweak in Google’s scoring algorithm would push the
> content providers toward IPv6 and force web hosting companies to roll out
> IPv6 support immediately.
>
> from:
> http://blog.ioshints.info/2010/08/tweak-search-engine-rankings-to-push.html
> _________________________
>
>
>  Do you think high search rankings are enough of an incentive? In the
> spirity of "the most effective way to influence behaviour is to change the
> incentives" ... i think this may work.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
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