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Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by notahacker on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:05PM (#32349905)
IIRC Google of 15 years ago would have prioritised high PageRank sites containing the strings "Ko Lanta" and "Croatia" which would probably have been the Ko Lanta listings page of popular travel booking websites (with "Croatia" referenced somewhere in the sidebar).

It was less likely to ignore the absence of a particular keyword but certainly wasn't better at NLP

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Re:Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google by bryanrasmussen on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:46AM (#32353789)
I think that's definitely the google of 10 years ago, 15 years ago might still have been like the parent commenter suggested. The reason being that the persons blog with travel information would be likely to have a higher pagerank than the popular travel booking sites which might also not be SEO optimized enough to hit that particular search.
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