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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by mulmen on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:53PM (#31021302)
This used to be a feature of Google Search. It then moved from the Google Account to Chrome. I'm not sure if it still exists in the Chrome browser. It can be done with addons but of course that doesn't feed back to Google.

It does surprise me that Google wouldn't want to capture this signal. Maybe it is too susceptible to abuse?

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by dazc on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:33AM (#31023721)
> Maybe it is too susceptible to abuse?

The incentive to block one's competitors from 10,000 different accounts is likely why they no longer offer this function?

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by ansible on Thursday April 14, 2022 @05:07AM (#31024709)
At the end of the day, being able to detect bots (and the abuse from them) is key to maintaining, well, anything.
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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by abraae on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:18PM (#31021504)
It surprises me too. Perhaps they are snow blind from having had something like it in the past and then removing it.

But in the modern era, I feel that being able to use human signals like that - on top of the fancy algorithms - could well be a killer network effect for them.

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:09PM (#31021904)
The SEO dreck drives more ad impressions than real content. Why would they improve the results when they have a captive audience who won't switch to other search providers.
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