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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by wslh on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:09PM (#35294011)
Please Sergey and Larry return and apply your original paper! Just update it a bit.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by jjoonathan on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:21PM (#35294157)
They knew what they were doing. They always knew.

> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by lordnacho on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:16PM (#35294090)
Surely that's not going to work with all the data (aka website content) having changed markedly over the years, with SEO being a major factor?
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by wslh on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:25PM (#35294217)
IMHO if you open the Google database to researchers the community will find a solution nowadays.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by tshaddox on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:11PM (#35294774)
Does PageRank even work fundamentally when the search engine using PageRank is so big that it influences essentially every webmaster in the world?