Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine
by groffee on Sunday July 10, 2022 @12:24PM
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> Any successful search engine will be gamed.
Only because it's profitable for them to allow it to be gamed, like all the spam sites now when you search for SO, Google allows them to be ranked because they're filled with Google ads. But it'd be trivial to just delist them all, that'd be beneficial for the user but not the search engine.
It's not a matter of 'developer power' just flip a boolean somewhere and delist the site.
Only because it's profitable for them to allow it to be gamed, like all the spam sites now when you search for SO, Google allows them to be ranked because they're filled with Google ads. But it'd be trivial to just delist them all, that'd be beneficial for the user but not the search engine.
It's not a matter of 'developer power' just flip a boolean somewhere and delist the site.