Re:Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
by bambax on Sunday March 26, 2017 @04:04PM
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Thanks for this excellent comment. I wonder if this is true though:
> Google is also bad at provenance - figuring out that site A is using text derived from site B, and thus B should be ranked higher.
The part I dispute is the last part. What matters is the user perspective. So of course a site that does nothing but scrape another one should rank lower, but many scrapers add value, if none other than UI-wise. So it's not obvious that the site of origin should rank higher.
> Google is also bad at provenance - figuring out that site A is using text derived from site B, and thus B should be ranked higher.
The part I dispute is the last part. What matters is the user perspective. So of course a site that does nothing but scrape another one should rank lower, but many scrapers add value, if none other than UI-wise. So it's not obvious that the site of origin should rank higher.