Re:The Google Squeeze
by judge2020 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:55PM
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> I've been thinking about up-votes/down-votes.
I don't have proof but I'm sure the amount of votes on eg. reddit (or perhaps how long it was on the front page) has an effect on search results; see the Comcast swastika[0] and Trump showing up when searching 'Idiot'[1].
Re:The Google Squeeze
by intarga on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:48AM
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I don't think it actually has anything to do with upvotes, but is just an indirect effect since highly upvoted pages are generally more trafficked, and it's the high traffic that really matters.
I don't have proof but I'm sure the amount of votes on eg. reddit (or perhaps how long it was on the front page) has an effect on search results; see the Comcast swastika[0] and Trump showing up when searching 'Idiot'[1].
0: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/403brr/10_months_lat...
1: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/397920-activists-manip...