Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story

Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story by zo1 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:32PM (#37805275)

So is no one questioning that maybe the search subsystem talks to the "website score" (or whatever it's called in Google-speak), to determine if it's relevant? And perhaps that score is influenced by how many valid ads there are.

Maybe the score is simply highly-correlated with a site that shows many google ads? Think about it, someone that shows Google ads happens to also be very very keen on optimizing everything that affects their rankings in Google searches.

Hey Google, perhaps "displaying many Google ads" should be a negative on page-rank?

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Re:Wired has removed "How Google Alters Search Queries" story by judge2020 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:49PM (#37805428)

Regardless, the Wired piece had no evidence and didn't make a claim on the same basis as what you're suggesting. The opinion author mistook this feature by thinking it applied to organic results: https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/10286719?hl=en

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