Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by pphysch on Thursday June 18, 2020 @08:21PM
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Nitpick, that's kind of a non example because the official Postgres docs let you swap versions more or less seamlessly. IME I will click the top result then click the correct version for my Postgres SE queries. 2 clicks, 0 scrolling.
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You're right. I tend to click back, then revise my search to include the version, and then click the result, so Google gets the message that when I search for Postgres docs, I want the most recent version. I have no idea if this actually works, but I heard Google uses bounces to determine relevancy, so I thought it was worth a shot.
Might as well piss in the wind. The number of back-links from different sources probably has a much larger effect.
Sure, but 1 click and 0 scrolling would be better!
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by TuringTest on Friday June 19, 2020 @11:41AM
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Try the button I'm feeling lucky!
Before the omnibar became popular I used to use google as my homepage and I'd type website keywords then "I'm feeling lucky" to get to my frequent websites. I think bookmarks took up too much space vertically so this was my solution /shrug
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by raverbashing on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:21AM
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Well it might be easy to switch but it is a good example
Why is it that Google is thinking the older page is more relevant? Does PageRank outrank content (and Google is oblivious to similar pages that have different versions?)