Re:Mourning Google
by wuschel on Friday January 19, 2024 @11:56AM
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While I can’t really objectively comment on the development of the quality of search result over time, one is for sure: the amount of data Google has to process and the amount attempts to influence beforementioned search results have grown a couple of orders of magnitude since Google’s creation.
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Yes.
But
1. so has their processing power
2. lots of the problem (first page of results filled with ads that looks like content, including spam in the results and not giving us a block option) are not related to scale
3. Smaller (search.marginalia.nu) and larger (kagi.com) competitors keep demonstrating that it is possible to implement doublequotes correctly and not include results I didn't ask for - even in 2024.
For 2 it is related to scale. Because of their scale Google is targeted by spammers the most. The smaller searches don't need to fight off bad content because it's not targeting their specific algorithms.
Re:Mourning Google
by 8n4vidtmkvmk on Sunday January 21, 2024 @05:31AM
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Doesn't explain why we can't block domains. That would be an excellent signal to Google that maybe that domain is hosting trash.