Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
by knighthack on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:39AM
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I think this is also because of potential abuse: there's nothing to prevent malicious SEO gamers from reporting legitimate sites as 'spam' to remove competition, as a means of extortion, etc.
Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
by mushyhammer on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:58PM
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Yes but I mentioned how to limit that:
> trusted Google users
> (after manual review)
> already exists and works on Google Maps
Even the data collected from a personal blocklist would be useful for them, without explicitly reporting sites, but again they just don’t care.
They’ve been in the business of parsing websites for 25 years, surely they can tell ad-infested spam websites apart from good ones.