We're improving search results when you use quotes

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by chongli on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:44PM (#32351317)

PageRank is basically worthless at this point. Its baseline assumption, that keywords and in-links correlate with relevance, is now broken. The vast majority of stuff out there is SEO'd and link-farmed to death. If you want to find anything relevant with PageRank these days, you first need to find a way to filter out all of the spam. This is why search is so hard now.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by rightbyte on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:29AM (#32352864)

> find a way to filter out all of the spam

It is the same spam sites I see again and again. A manual blacklist from one puny FTE would probably clean up the wast majority.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by nikanj on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:40AM (#32353744)

But that would involve hiring a human. Google's prime directive is "Never hire a human do a job well, when you can train AI to do the same job badly"

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by graftak on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:08AM (#32353118)

They could even crowd source this by allowing users to block domains from search results, which should affect its ranking long term.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by jpindar on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:26PM (#32358360)

As with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by anticensor on Saturday August 06, 2022 @11:52AM (#32369150)

You can use -inurl:example.com

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Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes by metadat on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:16AM (#32351569)

Impossibly difficult and resource intensive? Sounds like we need a reset of some kind.

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