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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by dawnerd on Monday March 22, 2021 @01:47PM (#26544100)
I was kinda thinking the same too until I went back and gave bing and DDG a shot and well, Google is still way better for my searches. I think its more of the seo spam that popping up thats making the results look less useful.
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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by bick_nyers on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:14PM (#26544519)
That would be an interesting problem, how do you algorithmically filter out SEO and focus on useful information? A signal vs. noise problem, but on human text, with the added challenge that the noise is trying to outsmart you. Maybe an adversarial ML network with an SEO-generating bot working against you?
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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by Const-me on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:36PM (#26546590)
Technically, trivially simple: detect and penalize ads. You can even reuse an ad.blocker's database for the detection.
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