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Re:AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from G... by falcolas on Saturday June 30, 2018 @10:39AM (#17430999)
> With every change of the ranking algorithm there's a bunch of sites going up or down and nobody can tell you the exact reason why

And that is a problem. No company with as much influence on the web as Google has should be able to hide behind a phrase such as "it's just the algorithm". "De-rank every web site with the word humuhumunukunukuapua’a" is an algorithm too.

Every ranking should have a very clear reason, and legitimate web sites (yes, this is a judgement call, but a site with a history like this one would qualify) should have access to that reasoning behind their ranking.

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Re:AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from G... by dewey on Saturday June 30, 2018 @10:49AM (#17431035)
But isn't the reason that the exact ranking algorithms and factors are not public mostly to prevent people from gaming the system? If the exact formula for being the best ranked result would be public every seo-spam site would adapt to them too and everything becomes irrelevant again.
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