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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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