Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by jandrese on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:00PM
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Of course the problem is that if your site becomes popular it will be overrun by SEOs pushing monetized vapid content. This is how people earn money, they aren't going to stop just because you want to return to a time before they ruined the internet.
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Results could be better filtered. SEO spam isn't very nuanced, it all reads the same and frequently plagiarized. I wonder if you can crudely use something like turnitin to filter for original content.
Maybe you could try and make a model SEO article for your own search engine, just taking your existing SEO results and figuring out which parameters are contributing the most to their ranking, then filtering out results that contain these parameters that worked well in your model. Rinse and repeat as SEO writers try and step up their arms race, but they should always end up being foiled by your changes to the search engine after optimizing your own perfect SEO model regularly.
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by majormajor on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:52PM
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If it was that easy, someone would be able to do it.
Instead every algorithmic content delivery platform, from Google to Twitter to Youtube to Facebook, is constantly chasing just to keep from being underwater against the spammers.
SEO is exactly as sophisticated as it needs to be to get to the top of your rankings.
SEO sites have an Achilles' heel though: they need to make money somehow, and 99% it's going to be ads. So filter them out based on that. Create a space for a noncommercial web.
They can also make money by selling things. Much harder to detect algorithmically than ads, and I don't know if you want to filter it out?
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by dredmorbius on Thursday June 18, 2020 @10:28PM
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Or by scams, hoaxes, fraud, blackmail, pump-and-dump, propaganda, ....
Less than ads and subscriiptions, but enough to fund a lot of crap.
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by russellendicott on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:50PM
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At some point this monetization game must end and we just have to pay for things we want. If there was a search engine that met my needs I would gladly pay $15/month for access.