Are there any downsides / flaws with the new Google algo?
As we do our further analysis, we expect several bugs and shortcomings to manifest over time. Here are a few that we feel could hurt Google and its users- • Hilltop is based on the assumption that each ‘expert document’ it locates would be unbiased, Spam-free and manipulation-free. We feel that this may not be the case. If even a small percentage of expert documents are contaminated, the scores would magnify the error leading to a significant number of ‘false positives’ in the top-ranks. • Hilltop attempts to arrive at a selection of pages voted to be ‘authoritative’. There is no evidence of a guarantee that these pages would also mean ‘quality’. • We believe that since a lot of processing power is required to run Hilltop, it (probably) runs on a monthly batch processing frequency for popular search terms. This coupled with the fact that significant weight is assigned to the ‘Hilltop’ part of the Google algo; we may expect to see sites continuing to rank without much fluctuation until
