Re:Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors
by vidarh on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:54AM
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If a user clicks through and don't end up back at the search engine, there is probably a high probability they found the answer whether or not they spent a short or long time at the page. But if they click through and then two seconds later comes back to the search engine results, that seems unlikely.
Re:Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors
by autoexec on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:31PM
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I tend to scroll down the first few pages of results and open anything that appears interesting even if it's not really relevant to what I wanted. Hopefully that doesn't look similar enough that it might impact the ratings of sites on other search engines. It's possible that the first few results got me to what I was looking for (that's far from a given these days though) but I'm clicking on a lot of other results in a short amount of time regardless.
Re:Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors
by ajsnigrutin on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:50AM
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This would be true, if a user then did another search for something else, or close the tab. If you got an answer, you usually don't come back and click the next link in the results.
Re:Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors
by Loic on Monday January 30, 2023 @07:15AM
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For me the pattern changed in the past few years. Before, I would take the first good answer as the answer, they used to be of good quality. Now, I tend to look at a couple (up to 4) of results to kind of cross-validate the answer before using it. Sometimes it takes me quite some "click through the results pages" to find 4 diverse enough results to validate the answer.
But looking at my kids, looking directly at the info box and considering the answer as given by God, I suppose I am an exception.
I don't think that if a user stays a short time necessarily means the content is garbage. It might also mean that the user found directly what he was looking for, such as the answer to the question.
It might even mean the page is very good as it is clear and provides the answer and does not have other click-bait type content.
Landing on a bad page, might require you to read and browse around and maybe after a while figure out it's garbage or you get distracted by some "interesting", but unrelated articles. But if the search engine would rank it high because of this then that would be wrong.