News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Google Memory Loss. Parent comment

Re:Google Memory Loss by Klathmon on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:35AM (#16157434)
Something tells me the solution of removing "bad" pages isn't as trivial as you seem to imply it is here...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Memory Loss by amelius on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @06:58AM (#16157546)
The important point is that it's orthogonal to search.

You can make SEO-penalization as complicated as you want without affecting search. The only thing search should be able to deal with is a SEO-penalty which is just a number.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Memory Loss by ryanianian on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @08:13AM (#16157876)
Is your point that SEO-penalization is just a sorting implementation concern? I think Google does far more than that - perhaps removing/banning sites or categories of content that are deemed to be gaming their system.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Google Memory Loss by amelius on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:54AM (#16158568)
No, I was replying to what derefr said.

And removing/banning sites can be done by setting the SEO-penalty to infinity.

I'm not trivializing anything. All I'm saying is that the concerns can be separated.

[ Parent | on HN ]