A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by jamra on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:22AM (#28561522)

This is just a guess, but I believe that they use machine learning and rank it by the clicks. I took some coursera courses and Andrew Ng sort of suggested that as their strategy.

The problem is that clickbait and low effort articles could be good enough to get the click, but low effort enough to drag society into the gutter. As time passes, the system is gamified more and more where the least effort for the most clicks is optimized.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by HPsquared on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:06AM (#28574525)

It sounds like the problem is, the search engine has no way to measure satisfaction after the click.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by sdoering on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:58AM (#28574714)

But they have. or could have. At least Google (and to a smaller extend Microsoft), if you are using Chrome/Bing have exactly that signal. If you stay on the site and scroll (taking time, reading, not skimming) all this could be a signal to evaluate if the search result met your needs.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by digaozao on Saturday September 18, 2021 @07:36AM (#28575364)

I've heard google would guess with bounce rate. Or another way, if the user clicks on LinkedIn website A, after a few moments keeps trying other linksw/related search. It would mean it was not valuable.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by dtonon on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:02AM (#28574727)

They tried to insight this with the "bounce rate"

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