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

[Douglas Onyango]

First off, the writer alludes to Users waiting for v6 content, IMHO, this reasoning is flawed....Users just need content, the version of IP addressing.....they don't care about it  if the packets are flowing.

I know he also said the implementation details belong to the Search Engines, but i think principally he assumed that the Search engines are on his side which i don't think he should count on automatically. 

If i understood the explanation, results will have to run (up) 2 additional algorithms, and yet an analysis on impact  to the operators has not been done....however minimal, i am sure this is going to impact their speed and service ultimately....so you still think they will tag along? my guess is not......these guys run businesses, not charity.

Ok, lets grant it for a moment, that they actually listen to you. i didn't see any incentive to the search engine operators.....so why would they even give this a thought....ohh, wait IPv6 is running out...........true, but this is not their problem....they just want to turn out volumes of content, and anything that says...."let's be abit selective" in my view just won't work well for them..

But again, it's just me thinking.

Regards,
Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:17:55 +0400
From: Mukom Akong TAMON <mukom.tamon at gmail.com>
Subject: [afripv6-discuss] Tweak the Search Engine rankings to push
    IPv6
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Hello all

Here is an interesting idea ...

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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
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 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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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:13:54 +0000
From: "hisham ahmed. ibrahim" <ahisham at mcit.gov.eg>
Subject: RE: [afripv6-discuss] Tweak the Search Engine rankings to
    push IPv6
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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.
Regards
Hisham Ahmed

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From: afripv6-discuss-bounces at afrinic.net [afripv6-discuss-bounces at afrinic.net] on behalf of Mukom Akong TAMON [mukom.tamon at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:17 PM
To: IPv6 in Africa
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?


--
Mukom Akong Tamon
_______________
"A man owns nothing, not land or money, only his character, the loyalty & courage in his heart" - Commander Chakotay - StarTrek Voyager


[ICT Business Integration] - http://ibiztech.wordpress.com
[Leadership Lessons from Movies] - http://thbs.wordpress.com
[In Search of Excellence & Perfection] - http://perfexcellence.wordpress.com  [Technical How-Tos & Stuff-at-a-Glance] - http://techowto.wordpress.com




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