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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Nextgrid on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:27AM (#35040196)
> That assumes there's a single, canonical idea of what a "good result" looks like

Maybe we can't agree on what people want, but what I'm sure we can agree on is what people don't want. I don't recall anyone ever saying "I wish there were more ads in the content I'm consuming".

So we could at least start with that.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by bootsmann on Monday March 06, 2023 @07:52AM (#35040366)
Yes, and now turn that sentiment into a metric that can be measured as input to the model.

At first it was click-through rate, but that turned SEO into sites into clickbait to get high click scores. Then they switched to time spent on the site, and as a consequence we get recipes that are filled with 2h of prose above them just so people stay longer on the site.

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