Google rewrites many page titles

Re:Google rewrites many page titles by stickfigure on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:46AM (#30087859)

Given how site owners habitually attempt to distort reality with tag stuffing and other bullshit metadata, what do you expect? Reality is not what is printed on the tin.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by travisgriggs on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:53AM (#30087978)

Should I ask Walmart to kindly start relabeling products on their shelves because what’s on the tin is rarely as good for me as what the maker purports?

Maybe that’s what we need. An FDA metadata label for every website served, kinda like the fav-icon, but useful.

- Readable word count (protein)

- Ad count (fats)

- Image count (carbs)

- Embedded script size (the list of nasty sounding chemicals it contains)

- Average data transmitted (sugars)

- etc

Must be shown in black text on white background with a black border. Sorry dark mode guys.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by stickfigure on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:57AM (#30088029)

This might actually be the killer app for AR. Reviews of products as you look at them on the shelf.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by imilk on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:36PM (#30088678)

Rather than showing the actual reviews, just lower the color saturation for lower reviewed products. So high reviewed products would pop in a sea of gray scaled items.

Sounds like something out of Black Mirror, but could be interesting.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by skhr0680 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:32PM (#30090515)

I can’t wait for “This product is awesome 5/5 btw I don’t own it” and “My favorite 1/5” in AR

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by kokekolo on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:52PM (#30089996)

Vivino kinda does that but for wine only. You can scan any bottle with it and it shows you its rating based on user reviews.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by krferriter on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:27PM (#30090452)

Sounds like it might either decrease sales, or increase the manufacturing of fraudulent or shill reviews.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by mdoms on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:52AM (#30087964)

I'd expect Google to downrank sites that are trying to manipulate the system. Not rewrite them.

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Re:Google rewrites many page titles by skinkestek on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:57AM (#30088042)

How could that work out? Low quality sites usually have more juicy ad spots?

More seriously: incentives are stacked against search quality these days. Poor results means more trips into ad laden wastelands, and more returns to the ad laden search results page.

Giving people the result up front and center would directly affect quarterly profit I am afraid.

At least this is the model that makes most sense to me.

The next most probably is machine learning is already out of control and the people who created it left.

Edit: wild speculation of course.

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