How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results

Re:How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contract... by v7p1Qbt1im on Sunday November 17, 2019 @12:47PM (#21558973)

I can tell you from experience that everyday users don‘t care that much about seeing ads. Some even like them. They care even less about the possibility of manipulated results. It’s also a really big topic to explain.

Besides the question of the funding of this hypothetical search engine. It being „fair and objective“ or even completely transparent about its ranking, would mean it‘d be SEO‘d into oblivion by everything from click/content farms to trolls to more nefarious actors. As long as many on the internet want to make money or manipulate people somehow it‘s not really doable in my opinion.

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Re:How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contract... by charlesism on Sunday November 17, 2019 @03:08PM (#21559779)

Am I doing your comment an injustice if I paraphrase it as follows?:

- Ads do not adversely affect customer satisfaction.

- The combined forces of Microsoft, Apple and others could not create a serviceable search engine (despite Microsoft alone having already made one).

If not, let’s just agree to disagree :)

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Re:How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contract... by v7p1Qbt1im on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:32PM (#21561691)

Ads are looked at as either a nuisance and necessary evil or just a part of how the „free web“ pays for itself.

I‘m sure they can. And, as you say, MS does already. supported with ads as well unless I‘m mistaken. Are you suggesting they offer a search engine and subsidize it. That they offer it as part of their ecosystem benefits, sort of?

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Re:How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contract... by charlesism on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:38AM (#21562582)

Yes, that’s what I was thinking.

I can’t disagree that users tolerate ads, since advertising is the model of plenty successful websites. It’s just that, like bundled OS crapware, the user experience is better without it.

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