Re:A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]
by planb on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:49AM
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100% agreed on the decline of Google's algorithm. Those SO rip off sites make me furious, too [1]!
But people know they are clicking on a video link and do so not just because it's ranked higher than the text ones, but because they feel a video is easier to understand.
Re:A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video]
by spywaregorilla on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:49AM
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Yeah. On top of that google seems to prefer giving videos, categorically. Youtube results are shown first for many, but not all, types of queries. Not entirely clear what the distinction is. But it's not like it alternates video, web link, video, implying that they're sorted in terms of match rate even ignoring gross SEO. It's just video first.
No, it's because they searched on a technical topic and the Stack Overflow hits ranked lower than this spam. There's a shitload of spam-bucket, search-trap sites that scrape Stack Overflow and re-host its text in a column full of ads. I mean... pages of hits of them. Now we have auto-generated videos doing it.
Again, Google's vaunted algorithms don't do shit about it; even worse, Google REMOVED the ability to block specific sites from search results. Despicable.