Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by alangibson on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:50AM
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Garbage sources have a serious habit of getting taken over. It's not that common with quality sites, but also not impossible. A simple downvoting system would be good enough.
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
by marginalia_nu on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:36PM
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The problem is that even quality sites die. And when they do, their domain gets poached and suddenly it's not a quality site anymore. But according to the ranking algorithms it's the same site, since its quality is measured by how many links it gets.
Coopting quality sites is a bit of a cottage industry. There is also a significant amount of hacked wordpress sites. Their domain may be quite reputable, but they're unknowingly host to a ton of spam.