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Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by enragedcacti on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:43PM (#31840080)
Does anyone have thoughts about how to use these to eliminate Amazon-Affiliate pop-up shops with auto-generated listicles of products no one so much as even looked at?

I would love a "Product Reviews" goggle that helps find legitimate reviews or recommendations without having to narrow to somewhere specific like reddit.

Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by mminer237 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @07:33PM (#31843281)
It might be too computationally intensive to make publicly available, but I would love it if they gave more in-depth controls for goggles beyond URL filtering. Being able to penalize sites for Amazon links, ad counts, or numbered lists or to boost sites for linking to high-quality content would be amazing.
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by pythux on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:15AM (#31847067)
Hey, I work at Brave,

This is great feedback, thank you! We already have a few ideas on how to make Goggles more powerful in the future, and the things you listed sound very interesting. Would you mind elaborating a bit on how you would see yourself using these features in a Goggle? (e.g. ads count, linking to high-quality content, etc.)

Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by mminer237 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:10PM (#31853017)
There might be more powerful ideas, but I'm thinking pretty simple:

  $downrank=%adcount%
  www.amazon.com*tag=$inlinks,downrank=2
  news.ycombinator.com$inlinks,boost=1
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by mminer237 on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:07AM (#31860540)
Thinking about it some more, other ideas would be to be able to make things exponentially more downranky the more affiliate links/ads it has (so one isn't a big deal but 4 is), and to just be able to give a generic percentage tweaks for linking to high-ranking sites or being linked from them, but the later is probably much harder.
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by dubswithus on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:37PM (#31853392)
Love this idea. Except for a few review sites, I generally find sites with many affiliate links unworthy.
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by pythux on Thursday June 23, 2022 @07:09PM (#31856222)
Thank you, very interesting ideas. I like the option to boost based on a variable depending on the page itself. How would we define “adcount”, number of network requests blocked by some adblocker when loading the page?
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by mminer237 on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:35PM (#31867320)
I suppose that could work. I would think that would just block Google's ad script in one when it might add three auto ads however. I was just thinking load it without an adblocker and count the number of `.adsbygoogle:not([style*="display: none"])` and `.amzn-native-container`, etc.
Re:Brave Search Goggles: Alter search rankings with rules an... by __ka on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:13PM (#31841291)
If there is a pattern Amazon affiliate links have in common, you can create a goggle which removes any URL containing that pattern.