Re:The birth and death of search engine optimization
by abound on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:47PM
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> It would be good if you could select a list of sites that you trust, so the sites they link to (and the sites those link to and so on) get boosted in your own personal search results.
Kagi _kinda_ supports this with "Personalized Results", you can see the most popular personalizations at [1]. To my knowledge, it doesn't do the "links to sites you trust" piece, but is still really useful.
Note: I work with Kagi in a part-time role.
Re:The birth and death of search engine optimization
by yetanother12345 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @08:54PM
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> Why does PageRank not combat ...
PageRank was the toy that got Google started, it has since been left for other toys. AFAIK around a decade ago it was succeded by the toy "quality signals". So, the reason PageRank does not is that PageRank... well, does not.
Why does PageRank not combat this? The content shouldn't rank well unless high authority sites are linking to it? And if a high authority site started linking to AI generated junk, it would start losing its authority because it would start losing backlinks.
> The basic idea is that you use generative AI to systematically churn out articles about a given topic and then use A/B testing to eliminate the ones that don't "work" on search engines in favor of the ones that do. This is a way to automate the process of creating content farms.
It would be good if you could select a list of sites that you trust, so the sites they link to (and the sites those link to and so on) get boosted in your own personal search results.
I recall Google was trying something like this with Google+. People could +1/upvote a site, and the upvotes from the people you followed would influence personalise your search results, but this went away when Google+ was shut down.