Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes...
by hdjjhhvvhga on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:24AM
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> Food bloggers know that recipe-searchers are there to drop in, get an ingredient list, and move on.
This is not entirely true, though. If a randomly found recipe turns out particularly good, I'll bookmark the site and try out other dishes. It's a very practical method to find particularly good* recipe collections.
*) In this case "good" means what you need - not just subjectively "tasty", but e.g. low cost, quick to prepare, low calorie or in line with a particular diet and so on.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes...
by inanutshellus on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:04AM
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I'm aware of zero human-behavior-truisms that are "entirely true".
One audience matches your description and is the invested reader. They want that blogger's story telling. they might make the recipe, but they're a dedicated reader.
The other audience is not the recipe-searcher, but instead Google. Food bloggers know that recipe-searchers are there to drop in, get an ingredient list, and move on. They won't even remember the blog's name. So the site isn't optimized for them. It's optimized for Google.
"Slow the parasitic recipe-searcher down. They're leeches, here for a freebie. Well they'll pay me in Google Rank time blocks."