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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by the_other on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#28552885)
If there were a wider variety of popular search engines, with different ranking criteria, would sites begin to move away from gaming the system? Surely it would be too hard to game more than one search engine at a time?
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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by Nasrudith on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:03PM (#28556752)
It would be a matter of numbers anyway about which they optimize for. A/B testing is already in place and doesn't care about where it comes from, just which one does better.
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