Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:08PM
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Python documentation is a static Sphinx site with no need for JS to render content. That's the easiest possible design for search engines to index. It's Google's fault that their algorithm can be gamed by low quality seo sites.
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Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
by ziml77 on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:51PM
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The only way it wouldn't be able to be gamed is if they kept making large changes to it for no other reason than to be a moving target. Like you can say "oh it's stupid that they prioritize X and not Y when Y is a much better indicator of meaningful content" but as soon as they switch Y to be a priority, sites will shift to maximizing the amount of Y.
Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:48PM
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Google can fix the problem. They just don't want to. They were able to kill the Wikipedia clones by demoting their rankings. They don't want to surface non-profit ad-free sites on the first page results because that cuts into revenue.
Re:How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
by HDMI_Cable on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:07PM
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With how much money Google spends on ML it's really a wonder that they haven't been able to out-compete a bunch of consultants on SEO. This really seems like a blunder on Google IMO.