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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by ipaddr on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:13PM (#34456281)
It is a reflection on how google views popularity over usefulness.
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by lazide on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:35PM (#34456582)
Huh?
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by dekhn on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:23PM (#34457387)
The biggest signal in Google's site ranking must be user clicks without returns (IE, user found something they wanted, clicked on it, and didn't come back to Google to search more). That would be good at filtering spammy pages, and shows things that are already known to be popular at the top. Rather than using link structure, use user clicks.
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Re:Google Announces 12K Layoffs: A difficult decision to set... by mike_d on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:42PM (#34461126)
That is not the metric used to determine result quality. But if it were, you'd be correct.
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