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.
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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.