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Google knows with 99.9999% certainty that there is a real person behind each Google Account. They simply have usage statistics and usage behaviour detectors that can verify that a Google Account user is a real user and not a bot. This makes it IMPOSSIBLE to game such a Google Reviews system.

There is nothing wrong with self promotion, and promoting your friends and family is just fine. Google knows when you are self promoting yourself and Google knows when you are promoting your friends. Google knows everything about you, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. This means Google can weight each Review differently and output the Reviews differently in a personalized way for each user.

Imagine what will filter up to the top for search queries such as “Who should be the president?”, “What should we do about Iraq?”, “Are Oil companies doing good?”, “What should my neighbour do with his garden?”

Google could in fact realise this idea that I’ve had for the last 4 years, Google could become the Truth Engine, making a system that uses the collective intelligence of all the people and outputs 100% the truth. This would force every politician to follow orders from the population, this would make direct democracy a reality.

Do you want to know the truth about anything in realtime? Simply look it up on Google. Do you know something, do you have some proof, do you have some evidence, do you have some ideas? Simply publish them on Google, based on your profile and usage behaviour, and other users appreciations of your submitions, your Truth can become the truth.

You can see a video of this feature at TechCrunch.com: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/is-this-the-future-of-search/